TIN PLATE TOWER

[CNJRR]

Won this off eBay, listed for $9.99 I watched it. No one bid, relisted at 99 cents, I put a whopping bid of $1.66 in.
I won it. I can't see why no one else bid, lol. 
Tin plate experts......do you know what it is?

I stuck it in the back, 16" high.

 

 

[Terry]

Looks like a German semaphore missing the arms. You can see the levers at the base and the hole near the top for the semaphore blades. Wires would connect the blades to the levers.

My impression is it's too heavy to be Kibri so either Marklin or Bing. Probably made between 1915 and 35.

Here's an ebay listing with simnilar signals.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225474377956

[CNJRR]

Your good Terry. Has a Bavarian stamp underneath on the bottom.
I think it is a Bing, Gauge 1 signal tower.
Bing made different types of these from the early 1900's to around the early 30's as best as I can figure out.
After looking at different but similar signal towers, I came to the conclusion that this mine is from 1915.

 

[CNJRR]

I have a bunch of Bethlehem Steel items on my table, they are painted Yellow and black.
I made it a tower with different things on it, I don't know if the antennas will stay.

 

[CNJRR]

The three little dishes on the bottom are drawer buttons mounted on chicken throw away pop up timers that I saved. I think they have some nice dish detail?

 

[CNJRR]

The other larger dishes, ones a medicine bottle cap and the other is a toilets pop on plastic cover for the nut.
The probes are from the little plastic table that you get with some pizza deliveries. It holds the cover off the pizza. I glued the cap and nut cover on to them.
In these pictures they are just sitting there, I mounted them elsewhere.