Lot 12
12
An ornamental turning lathe by Holtzapffel & Co.,No. 2487, with iron bed, double mahogany frame with treadle gear, double-standard overhead on latticed iron standards, traversing mandrel headstock with six rows of divisions on brass pulley, adjustable, automatic and plain indices, tangent screw and segment gear, tailstock, handrest with three tees, ornamental turning slide-rest in ebony-strung mahogany case with fluting stops and counting ratchet, curvilinear attachment with twenty-three templates in rack, rear-mounting spiral apparatus numbered for the lathe, with base, banjo, fourteen change-wheels and hand-writtten Tables of Wheel Settings (Holtzapffel & Co, 1912) in case, apparatus for equal division of the ellipse, metal-turning slide-rest with rack of cutters, eccentric and ellipse chucks with cam ring in a case, rectilinear, dome and oblique chucks, oak backboard chest containing various brass and wood chucks, keys, spanners and other accessories, universal, eccentric, horizontal, deep internal and vertical cutting frames, two drill-spindles, two tool-holders, five squares by Holtzapffel and others, two protractors and two pairs of callipers, slide-rest pencil-holder, goniostat outfit in mahogany chest with goniostat, round-tool guide, three powder tins and three drawers with laps, hollow-tool sharpening outfit in chest and slope-topped chest containing approximately 320 cutters and 190 drills -- centre height 5in., overall width 43in. (107cm.)

Details
An ornamental turning lathe by Holtzapffel & Co.,No. 2487, with iron bed, double mahogany frame with treadle gear, double-standard overhead on latticed iron standards, traversing mandrel headstock with six rows of divisions on brass pulley, adjustable, automatic and plain indices, tangent screw and segment gear, tailstock, handrest with three tees, ornamental turning slide-rest in ebony-strung mahogany case with fluting stops and counting ratchet, curvilinear attachment with twenty-three templates in rack, rear-mounting spiral apparatus numbered for the lathe, with base, banjo, fourteen change-wheels and hand-writtten Tables of Wheel Settings (Holtzapffel & Co, 1912) in case, apparatus for equal division of the ellipse, metal-turning slide-rest with rack of cutters, eccentric and ellipse chucks with cam ring in a case, rectilinear, dome and oblique chucks, oak backboard chest containing various brass and wood chucks, keys, spanners and other accessories, universal, eccentric, horizontal, deep internal and vertical cutting frames, two drill-spindles, two tool-holders, five squares by Holtzapffel and others, two protractors and two pairs of callipers, slide-rest pencil-holder, goniostat outfit in mahogany chest with goniostat, round-tool guide, three powder tins and three drawers with laps, hollow-tool sharpening outfit in chest and slope-topped chest containing approximately 320 cutters and 190 drills -- centre height 5in., overall width 43in. (107cm.)
Sale room notice
The bronze bracket illustrated at the bottom right of the accessories group on colour plate 1 is actually part of Lot 14.

Lot Essay

Lathe No. 2487 was supplied in February, 1911, to the Earl Poulett, of Hinton House, Hinton St. George, Somerset, for 290. On his death in 1918, it passed to his son, the eigth earl, who became an engineer. The lathe was acquired by W.H. McCormick, also of Hinton St. George, in 1958.

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