Featured So what is this torture device/chair

i had to get this today. No idea what it is for. I thought some kind of dental chair but cannot find any like it. Any ideas?
TIA, Bryan

 

Ok I think it is a dental chair. I should have looked up antique dental chair instead of vintage

 

OMG. Is that the word Pain painted on it?

 

Yeah someone had fun

 

Actually, it looks more like "PALN"............OR could Brywil take a straight on picture of the lettering.....more complete and larger pictures would have been better too, but.................course maybe that's a reflection near the R side of what I'm calling the "L".....in which case....yes it would say "PAIN"

 

Yeah sorry about the pictures I have an IPhone the pics it takes are too big too download so I have to email them to myself and save them. Something definitely gets lost in translation. There has to be a better way

 

That's usually exactly what I do as well, (mine's a Samsung S7), but there are free or on board your computer a resizing program, or you can get very reasonably priced ones that also let you do reasonable editing!! Just a suggestion!!

 

I am wondering if perhaps the chair could have been used for eye and/or ear exams (not just a "possible" dental chair).

 

I could see that in a tattoo parlor, if only in the waiting area.

 

I trust if it’s an old dentist chair from your research, but the first thing that came to mind when I saw the photos was a chair for drawing blood.

 

I still like my out of date Google Picasa for resizing from my Samsung Android phone

 

This reminds me of a directory signboard I saw in a friend's office-building once. One of the signs read:

"Dr. Paino - Dental Surgery".