Old (I think) ticket punch info needed please

[raindropsies]

Anyone know anything about old ticket punches?

Heres a few pictures of one i am trying to research. any help or direction will be gladly sought







The picture below shows the cut it does on paper / tickets

[booksntings]

Looks a bit like an old railway ticket collectors punch

[deltadelta48]

or bus, some sort of ticket taker. The chain and ring seems to indicate someone had to keep it handy to use often. Mechanism is very heavy duty too.

I still see some businesses in US use this kind of punch to mark their special discount cards. Using an ink stamp to block out each purchase was probably too easy for customers to duplicate so they switched to punches.