Here’s a little something for you history buffs who have plenty of disposable income: Via Boing Boing, I see that someone has what appears to be a genuine Enigma cipher machine up for auction on eBay.
The Enigma was, of course, the cryptographic device famously used by the Nazis during World War II to generate coded messages. It also happens to be a cool-looking artifact of the pre-electronic world; I’d love to have one of these things in my curio cabinet! (Hint hint, if there are any really generous and wealthy people reading my humble blog…)
How very cool. If only old machines like these could talk and tell us what they’ve seen…
That’s the romance of antiques, isn’t it?
It’s up to $30,000 with over 3 days left.
Alrighty. That generous person who’s going to send me a nice tchotchke for my curio cabinet had better have a nice stock portfolio…