What is this Vintage item

[trustgodforlife]

I recently purchased this at an estate sale and I am stumped what it is.  It is some type of faceplate or cover but to what?  Any ideas?

[argon38]

Well, that is rather baffling. Are those letters on the dials, or just red dots?

[trustgodforlife]

The top dials are letters M A S and the lower dials are numbers 4 5 6.

[argon38]

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@trustgodforlife wrote:

The top dials are letters M A S and the lower dials are numbers 4 5 6.

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Ah.

[nc-daydreamer]

Looks like something from the dashboard of a car? 

Indeed interesting...

[maxine*j]

Maybe off the dashboard of this vehicle?

[sonomabarn67]

Ma Ma (mothership).

My first thoughts were sewing machine attachment and Soviet. Mothership was third.

[sonomabarn67]

Or knitting machine head. Something one would pull back and forth under different tensions.

[argon38]

Another couple of questions: are those red LEDs beside the knobs? Is there anything on the main dial (other than the numbers) that we can't see in the photo because it is blocked by the handle?

[argon38]

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@maxine*j wrote:

Maybe off the dashboard of this vehicle?

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Mid-25th Century Modern.

[argon38]

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

Or knitting machine head. Something one would pull back and forth under different tensions.

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I see what you mean, it does look like something hand-held.

[trustgodforlife]

I am not sure what the 4 red diamond shaped pointers are by the 4 knobs. Maybe they are LEDs. Underneath the Main Dial with numbers 1 through 10 is a selector that will move from either a C or a T.  Above the selector there is a star image with a rhinestone in the center.

[argon38 · Accepted solution]

It does look like a knitting machine head, as Sonomabarn suggests:

https://kmindumblog.wordpress.com/category/hobbies/machine-knitting/

[little.font.lord.leroy]

It was made by Noah From The Year 2030.

After traveling to 2018, this young dude actually traveled to 1957 where he tried to share our technology. This is his game controller prototype, but it didn't work because the biggest computer at the time (Z3) was only 22 bytes, and his prototype controller was for 4G .

If he's still here and now again, I think he might want it back.

[argon38]

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@argon38 wrote:

It does look like a knitting machine head, as Sonomabarn suggests:

https://kmindumblog.wordpress.com/category/hobbies/machine-knitting/

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Knitting machine "carriage" seems to be the correct term. Not sure why I've been awarded the solution for this one, I was just following in Sonomabarn's footsteps!