Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! hand-colored glass slide and the graphics on the

and the graphics on the box

full speed ahead

Found in Ohio

The front of the postcard is signed with what looks to read R

is pretty sharp

Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! hand-colored glass slide and the graphics on theI love this thing. The wonderful dealer I purchased it from (an artist who loves curious little things like this as much as I do) thought it along the lines of a cracker jack box ciphering wheel decoder, and I think that's right, creating a correspondence between numbers and letters, which one could use for writing, or deciphering, messages written in secret code. The center dial turns, and is incised with lines, as is the outer disk. So one course,