MYSTERY PHOTO: A pretty old thingamajig

Here’s something you may never have seen.  Can you identify it with a little specificity and tell us what it is and how old it is?  Extra points for a brand name.  Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.  And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)

Our previous Mystery Photo

Last week’s mystery, “Peeking through the treetops,” shows the steeple of Central Baptist Church on Radcliffe Street in Charleston.  The sharp angle of the photo masks a large well-known “Jesus Saves” painted near the top of the steeple.

Only one local resident, engineer Craig Bennett, correctly guessed the mystery, noting “handsome building, wonderful people.”  Also getting it right were three veteran sleuths, Bill Segars of Hartsville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.

Segars noted, “Central Baptist Church was the first church in Charleston to be designed, built and financed by African Americans.  The congregation was organized on June 18, 1891.  John P. Hutchinson designed this Carpenter Gothic building that was built by the members of the church for their first service in August of 1893.”

• Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.