Lot Essay
Additional equipment included with the lathe:
eccentric chuck, ellipse chuck with cam ring, Evans-type apparatus for equal division of the ellipse, dome chuck, iron faceplate, four-jaw faceplate chuck, three-jaw self-centring chuck, tailstock drill chuck, sixteen other chucks, eighteen brass change-wheels, front spiral apparatus with Goyen long-lead worm drive and twelve change-wheels, Goyen's face spiral attachment with bevel connecting wheels, eight templates and follower for curvilinear apparatus, slope-top cabinet with two drawers containing 164 O/T slide-rest tools, 117 eccentric cutting frame and 36 short cutting frame tools, 73 small and 12 large drills, spindle for each size, universal cutting frame (probably by Goyen), eccentric cutting frame with key, vertical cutting frame, heavy wheel cutting frame, elliptical cutting frame, mahogany goneostat outfit case containing an unsigned goneostat, two bed fluting stops, various keys and spanners and a quantity of books and papers relating to the lathe.
W.Goyen was a well-known maker between 1870 and 1890, noted for the extreme accuracy and quality of his lathes. He is thought to have made only thirteen, of which eleven survive. The present example was originally made for William John Potts Chatto. When Roger Davies' definitive articles on Goyen and his products were published in the Society of Ornamental Turners Bulletins (No. 67, 68 and 73), it was identified as the 'Gibbs' lathe. It appears hardly to have been used in the last sixty years.
eccentric chuck, ellipse chuck with cam ring, Evans-type apparatus for equal division of the ellipse, dome chuck, iron faceplate, four-jaw faceplate chuck, three-jaw self-centring chuck, tailstock drill chuck, sixteen other chucks, eighteen brass change-wheels, front spiral apparatus with Goyen long-lead worm drive and twelve change-wheels, Goyen's face spiral attachment with bevel connecting wheels, eight templates and follower for curvilinear apparatus, slope-top cabinet with two drawers containing 164 O/T slide-rest tools, 117 eccentric cutting frame and 36 short cutting frame tools, 73 small and 12 large drills, spindle for each size, universal cutting frame (probably by Goyen), eccentric cutting frame with key, vertical cutting frame, heavy wheel cutting frame, elliptical cutting frame, mahogany goneostat outfit case containing an unsigned goneostat, two bed fluting stops, various keys and spanners and a quantity of books and papers relating to the lathe.
W.Goyen was a well-known maker between 1870 and 1890, noted for the extreme accuracy and quality of his lathes. He is thought to have made only thirteen, of which eleven survive. The present example was originally made for William John Potts Chatto. When Roger Davies' definitive articles on Goyen and his products were published in the Society of Ornamental Turners Bulletins (No. 67, 68 and 73), it was identified as the 'Gibbs' lathe. It appears hardly to have been used in the last sixty years.