Experimental fingerwheels

[jsowers]

Back in January, 2007 in those heady pre-Forum days, I came across an eBay auction for some unusual fingerwheels. They were attached to pages with descriptions and part numbers. I bid and didn't get them, but I did save the pictures and thought maybe all of you would like to ponder what would have happened if they had adopted some of these unusual designs.

The ones I can't quite understand are the ivory solid center fingerwheels. How would you see the phone number?

I think the black "Implex" one is very interesting. They thought of doing colored plastic and colored metal. I think the colored metal would have been a maintenance headache because of worn paint. And can you imagine trying to find a replacement today for a colored fingerwheel? I'm glad they stayed with the clear ones and stayed with black on the metal ones. Considering aqua blue is among the palette, I would guess this is 1957 or later. Possibly around 1959 when the Princess made its debut with the solid center fingerwheel.

Anyway, I thought you'd like to do some "what if" with these items. If anyone out there actually owns these unusual pages, better pictures would be good.

[Doug Rose]

Jonathan...I remember this auction. I emailed the seller but never got any definitive information on what they were or where they came from. I particularly like the Ivory open face finger wheel. I thought it would look amazing on a Ivory 302....Doug