ANTIQUE WORKING RUSSIAN MECHANICAL CALCULATOR ARITHMOMETER "FELIKS KURSK" 1928

Description

ANTIQUE, VINTAGE RUSSIAN MECHANICAL CALCULATOR -
ARITHMOMETER
"FELIKS SCETMAS KURSK"
.
WITH ORIGINAL METAL BIG BASE PLATFORM,
VERY NEARLY TO FIRST
"ODHNER"
CONSTRUCTION
FROM TSAR RUSSIA.
THE OLDEST IN THIS "FELIKS" DYNASTY.
MODEL APPROXIMATELY FROM YEAR 1928.
IN FULLY
WORKING CONDITION.
LAST TIME IT WAS ONE NICE OBJECT
IN THE PRIVATE MUSEUM EXPOSITION.
DECORATIVE AND PRACTICAL
ITEM IN
GOOD VISUAL CONDITION
(ALL, LIKE YOU SEE IN PICTURES).
HAVE A SERIAL NUMBER 019156.
VERY SERIOUS AND HEAVY CONSTRUCTION.
IN THIS PROPOSAL I
NCLUDED ORIGINAL USING MANUAL
INSTRUCTION
(COPY)
AND PASSPORT
(COPY)
.
HISTORY:
This mechanical calculator is named "FELIKS"
in reference
to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
father of the "Cheka" (first secret police in Soviet Union).
"Cheka" later changed to become to be the KGB.
Dzerzhinsky in 1924 had set up a factory in Moscow
to produce mechanical calculators.
Later also this calculators (also called arithmometers)
were also produced in Kursk (where this one was built).
This type of calculators were produced and used in
Soviet Union
until 1970s when they were
replaced by electronic calculators.
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