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Antique Questions Forum / lutke gun display case

« on: September 11, 2007, 09:27:11 am »

I have an antique gun display case, the type that would have been found in a gun shop, not a  residence. It was made by a company called Lutke out of Portlland Or. and appears to be circa early 1900's. There seems to have been a pulley system of some kind that perhaps raised and lowered a shelf as the lid was opened and closed, also serving as a counterweight for the rather large and heavy glass and oak lid. There are a couple of pulleys and pulley brackets remaining in the case but I have not been able to figure out how they may have been used.

Is anyone familiar with this type of mechanism in any type of antique display case?