Someone paid an equivalent of $2000 for this in 1914 [Restoration]

This machine has the most odd combination of functions I’ve ever come across. It was made in 1914 by the F. Bissell Company of Toledo, Ohio, . and combines a vacuum, grinder, buffer, blower, and pulley. The tool is so old that this would have been one of the first introductions to an electric motor that a household would have had. These are quite rare and I had a very difficult internal struggle with removing the unique decal and having it recreated. The original decal contained only a partial image of the “Bissell Frog“ and with no high quality images of the full decal online, I was stuck until I came across an old F. Bissell Company catalogue with a large image of a frog on the front that matched. A fantastic graphic artist was able to use it to digitally recreate the decal in its entirety. After that, I sent the file to an awesome print shop that uses modern and old methods to reprint the decal on waterslide paper, just like the original. I think it’s the best decal I’
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