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After about 3.5 years since my original post I finally have a definitive answer.
Johnnyreb was correct- it was part of an old Bear alignment machine from the 1940’s or 1950’s.

I ended up consulting Damon Crowe (I believe he goes by “Alemite” on here.) He confirmed that it was indeed part of an old Bear Telaliner 600 machine.

Here are some photos that originally were in this post of when I brought it home and after paint stripping and clean up.

Mystery solved!

Thanks for all of the help, everyone!

And here are a couple photos Damon provided from old Bear catalogs.

Also, for those interested and currently unaware of it, Damon’s website, servicemerchandisers.com is pretty awesome.

Thanks for the link-Damons website is really helpful and interesting.