What is this ?

[Ostie82]

Not sure what it's intended purpose is, but it looks pretty awesome for organizing a shop to me!

[Harry Chickpea]

First guess would be a sewing notion drawer that you have stood upright. The thread bobbins would fit on the "bottom"

[Tricky Grama]

Maybe out of a Post office?

[simi-steading]

I have no idea, but it looks like it was made to lay down flat. I looks like some type of rod was meant to lay in the indentations at the bottom.. Not stand upright..

Or, it could be those are there to get your fingers around what ever fits in the slots.. .Interesting that the horizontal dividers are so thick, yet the vertical ones are so thin..

[Ozarks Tom]

It's a message/key cabinet from behind a hotel counter.

[HOTW]

I agree with Tom, it looks lime the ones i have seen in old movies.

Originally Posted by Ozarks Tom

It's a message/key cabinet from behind a hotel counter.

And the key tag hangs down in the notched part so you can see which keys are available at a glance...

[myheaven]

well it's small I can tell by the printer. so what I was thinking I don't think it could be.

[bigjon]

multi pipose out of a post office,holes with 1/2 rounds held hand stampers.

[wogglebug]

Originally Posted by bigjon

multi pipose out of a post office,holes with 1/2 rounds held hand stampers.

AHA!

What I've seen is the same sort of thing, but in an old railroad ticket office, where they'd have some tickets to be hand-written, some to be hand-stamped, and even some pre-stamped to be pulled off blocks stored in the bottom boxes. The most frequent would be dispensed by machines, but sometimes also from the pre-made blocks, or from rolls.