#22a • Vintage Gamewell Fire Alarm Ticker Tape and Gamewell Excelsior Take Up Reel

Part of Honoring a Legacy: Ruckriegel Electric Liquidation Auction (timed auction by Wardlow Auctions)

High bid $95.00

Status: Sold

Vintage Gamewell Fire Alarm Ticker Tape register and Gamewell Excelsior take up reel from the late 19th - early 20th century. It would punch holes into the paper tape to indicate the location of the alarm before telephones. Manufactured by the Gamewell Co. of Newton, Mass. The take up reel would wind and store the paper tape when an alarm was sounded so the the information would be stored, giving the firemen a location for the emergency. Location: Office