Decisions Decisions...worth it?

[Puros Y Vino]

On a walk with the wife this past weekend, we popped into an antique store. They had some old cash registers and for some reason this one stuck out.😁

At $800CAD it seems a bit steep. Anyone who collects old registers here? Does this price seem in line for registers from this era? The "Traveler Cigar" brand comes up in a 1914 copyright registry. And it seems it's just the product name and the company name may be The National Smoke. Maybe this is between 1914 and I'd guess 1940? 

I wonder what this history of this would be. Is the logo something a retailer can attach to their cash register? Did the company have these specially made for tobacconists? If you ordered and stocked X amount of their product would they give you one of these for your shop?

I'll pop in again in a few weeks, see if its still there and maybe by then I'll know what to offer and take it from there.  Or, this picture will make do.  

[BrightonCorgi]

Stop in with $500-600 in cash and see what they say.

[El Presidente]

From Claude 

At $800 CAD retail antique-shop pricing, it is probably full retail.
• Real-world dealer-to-dealer value may be closer to $350–450 CAD unless provenance is exceptional.
• If it is still there in a few weeks, an offer around $500–600 CAD cash would feel reasonable.
• If the register mechanism works and the topper is unquestionably original, maybe stretch a little higher because cigar-related countertop advertising has become increasingly collectible.