Hi,
You truly have hit the Holy Grail of Peanut machines, although it is not a Mills Little Perfection, That model was a card game, you have a Mills Improved Perfect, made in 1918, it was the first sanitized nut vendor, it looks very original, except, I would guest the glass is not the original, or the decal on the glass is just missing, find attached a picture from the Mills 1918 catalogue
of your machine it weighs 35 pounds and was sold by Mills for $9.00
But like you say good "Hunting" that is what collecting is all about.
Freddy Bailey