Whosawhatchamajigger

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I have been looking at this thing everyday for months and have no clue what it is. Sometimes it looks like a toy truck, sometimes it looks like a wall mounted something. It is wooden and is some type of wind up device. There is a lever, kinda looks like a gear shift, on the face/top of the device that works a lever underneath. There is a latch that looks like it would mount it to a wall near the notched out portions on the bottom/back. I really have zero clue. I was wondering if by chance somebody would know what this thing is/was.

 

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Gears

 

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Wind up

 

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Sometimes it looks like a toy truck

 

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The only writing I can find on the whole thing is on that little thimble looking piece in the bottom right of the second pic. It says REMOVE.

 

[BillinMo]

Well, hey, this is the internet, so wild guesses count, right? []

The little lever reminded me of a bell striker. I'm thinking there was a brass bell mounted on the round part. Maybe the timer was used for, say, boxing rounds or something similar. Wind it up, at the end of the mechanical cycle the striker would hit the bell. Eliminates the referee needing to time the rounds.

Here's an idea of what I'm talking about. Not quite the same as yours, but along the same lines.