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  • What do we have here?

  • It's a 1913 blueprint copy machine by the CF Pease

  • Company in Chicago, Illinois.

  • This is really, really, really cool.

  • This was like a game changing machine.

  • This was mass produced blueprints.

  • Because after this, they came up with an ammonia

  • process, which was a lot safer.

  • But your plans always smelled like ammonia.

  • Remember those? - Yeah.

  • Yeah, I do, actually.

  • So you're as old as me.

  • I'm coming in today to try to sell my 1913

  • blueprint copying machine.

  • I want to sell the blueprint machine

  • because my wife doesn't like it in our front room of our house.

  • She said it doesn't match the furniture.

  • I told her to get new furniture, but she's not having that.

  • It's a really neat system, I really dig it.

  • It was finally a way for people to make inexpensive blueprints.

  • You know, you'd have your trace paper across the front here,

  • and then you'd have your chemically treated paper

  • over it.

  • Then you would roll that close.

  • Great.

  • It rolls closed.

  • And that would pull it against there.

  • And then it would blast the light on it.

  • You would-- there's like a razor blade

  • system or something like that.

  • It would slice it off.

  • And then it would go into a washing machine.

  • And then it would go into a dryer.

  • It could do one a minute, but it was like, 10 minutes before it

  • got done with the process.

  • This is chemistry nerd gold right here.

  • The thing is, what do you want to do with it?

  • I want to sell it.

  • How much do you want for it?

  • Well, the only other one I've seen one for $18,000,

  • so I was thinking $12,000.

  • You're not going to see another one here.

  • I know I'm not going to see another one.

  • It will take me forever to find a buyer.

  • I mean, I'll give you $1,000 for it, dude,

  • but that's what I'd do.

  • I mean, I just don't know when it will sell or if it'll sell.

  • Can you go up to three?

  • I'll give you 1,000 bucks.

  • All right, 1,000 bucks.

  • All right, I am an absolute moron, probably.

  • But it's really cool.

  • No.

  • All right, let's go do some paperwork.

  • All right, great.

  • Settling on $1,000 for the blueprint machine

  • just because I don't want to have to take it home

  • and I don't want to listen to my wife after I do take it home.

What do we have here?

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