A nickelled brass ideal codigraph, French, Baveaux Freres, St. Nicolas D'alieremont Seine Inferieure, serial No. 1934, the rectangular wooden baseboard carrying a brass canister with seven aperture sets arranged in two lines, the upper line of four sets has double letter combinations, all of the apertures have hinged covers, the lower line with three apertures showing numbers, the displays in the apertures are controlled by three knobs at each end, the centre canister May be rotated to be clamped in place by a spring loaded arm locking into any one of an arc six holes worked in one end