Wolverine toy adding machine (1940s)

This is a child's toy from the late 1940s and early 1950s that allowed a kid to mimic daddy's bigger and more fully functioned mechanical office tablulating and computing machines such as the comptometer. You used a pen or pencil to move the four register number array back and forthe and then could perform calculations.

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From DigiBarn virtual visitor Les Van Norman:

I have a working wolverine toy adding machine like your pictured one, Where could I find the value of it? I remember receving this gift as a child. I enjoyed looking at your web site. I also have a old commerical hand crank adding machine which I believe is a Sunstrand. It is out in the garage and has been a long time since I have looked at it. I have to keep these away from my wife as it is junk to her even if it is in good working order. I also use to have a Remington Noiseless typewriter that I bought Used in 1955. That is about the time I bought the used adding machine also.

I started to work for the Burroughs corporation in 1968 as a software tech for a couple of years and worked for Texas Instruments in 1982 as a part time tech for the home computer division. Back in the Burroughs day we had core memory which kept information even after the computer was shut off. We worked on the Burroughs E4000 and E6000 which were computerized accounting machines with magnetic striped ledgers and 80 column punch cards.

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Our Comptometer