An ornamental turning lathe by Holtzapffel, No.1418, with iron bed on single mahogany frame, backboard on iron brackets, crankshaft and flywheel, 'Shepherd's Crook' overhead, traversing mandrel headstock with divided pulley and index, star nut and six screwhobs, screw barrel tailstock, hand rest base and three tees, ornamental slide rest with fluting stops, plain oval chuck with cam ring, eccentric chuck with ratchet nose, backboard chest containing seven metal spring chucks, Bennett's die chuck, mandrel taps by C.E. Johansson, various other metal and wood work chucks and keys, large universal chuck, three-jaw self centring chuck, four-jaw independent chuck, circular saw spindle with table and four saws, eccentric cutting frame, universal cutting frame and block of fifty-nine slide-rest tools - 42in. (106.7cm.) wide

Details
An ornamental turning lathe by Holtzapffel, No.1418, with iron bed on single mahogany frame, backboard on iron brackets, crankshaft and flywheel, 'Shepherd's Crook' overhead, traversing mandrel headstock with divided pulley and index, star nut and six screwhobs, screw barrel tailstock, hand rest base and three tees, ornamental slide rest with fluting stops, plain oval chuck with cam ring, eccentric chuck with ratchet nose, backboard chest containing seven metal spring chucks, Bennett's die chuck, mandrel taps by C.E. Johansson, various other metal and wood work chucks and keys, large universal chuck, three-jaw self centring chuck, four-jaw independent chuck, circular saw spindle with table and four saws, eccentric cutting frame, universal cutting frame and block of fifty-nine slide-rest tools - 42in. (106.7cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Lathe No.1418 was supplied in 1830 to the Rev. H.S. Hele, who died 1859. No subsequent history is known

More from Scientific and Medical Instruments,Tools and Other Apparatus

View All
View All