Marchant Model G-8EFA Calculating Machine (Figuremaster)

This full-keyboard, proportional gear non-printing electric calculating machine has a metal case painted blue-green with a metal keyboard painted gray, and eight columns of green and white plastic keys. At the bottom of each column is a tabulator set key These tab keys are numbered from 1 on the right to 8 on the left.

Right of the number keys are a small on-off switch; division, line up, and stop keys; subtraction and addition bars; a non-shift key; a repeat key; a negative multiplication bar; and two carriage shift keys. In front of these are clearance keys for the tab set, the keyboard, and the dials. Right of these is a column of ten keys for automatic multiplication. Above the number keys is a row of eight windows to show a number set up.

Behind the entry register is a movable carriage with an 16-window result register and an eight-window revolution register. The motor is at the back of the machine, inside the case. The machine presently has no cord.

A mark on the bottom of the machine and scratched on the front reads: G8EFA 394253. A paper tag attached to the bottom reads in part: MARCHANT. It also reads in part: Figuremaster

The Marchant Model 8EFA sold from at least 1951 until at least 1958.

Currently not on view