An ornamental turning lathe by Edward Hines, 'Officer's model', with iron bed on iron standards, overhead with typical fretted iron double standards, backboard, traversing mandrel headstock signed Edward Hines, Manufacturer, Griffin Works, Norwich on brass pulley, division plate to front of pulley with six rows of holes, index point, segment and tangent screw apparatus, six screw hobs and star nut, screw barrel tailstock, hand rest base and one tee, two large faceplates, two four-jaw chucks, 23 brass cup and other work chucks, 10 wood spring chucks, various wood chucks with brass backs, rectilinear, oval and eccentric chucks, large (16in. slide) O/T slide rest signed Edward Hines, Manufacturer, Griffin Works, Norwich, with cradle and fluting stops, rear-mounting spiral apparatus (similar Evans 1st edn. Fig. 169), with 20 brass change wheels, an automatic counting device based on Ashton's patent for rear mounting, 'Bourne' pattern Universal Cutting Frame and Vertical Cutting Frame --48in. wide, 77in. high, centre height 5in., mandrel nose 1in. x 8 T.P.I (Whitworth)

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An ornamental turning lathe by Edward Hines, 'Officer's model', with iron bed on iron standards, overhead with typical fretted iron double standards, backboard, traversing mandrel headstock signed Edward Hines, Manufacturer, Griffin Works, Norwich on brass pulley, division plate to front of pulley with six rows of holes, index point, segment and tangent screw apparatus, six screw hobs and star nut, screw barrel tailstock, hand rest base and one tee, two large faceplates, two four-jaw chucks, 23 brass cup and other work chucks, 10 wood spring chucks, various wood chucks with brass backs, rectilinear, oval and eccentric chucks, large (16in. slide) O/T slide rest signed Edward Hines, Manufacturer, Griffin Works, Norwich, with cradle and fluting stops, rear-mounting spiral apparatus (similar Evans 1st edn. Fig. 169), with 20 brass change wheels, an automatic counting device based on Ashton's patent for rear mounting, 'Bourne' pattern Universal Cutting Frame and Vertical Cutting Frame --48in. wide, 77in. high, centre height 5in., mandrel nose 1in. x 8 T.P.I (Whitworth)

Lot Essay

There is a pattern of four small holes on the headstock end of the bed where Hines used to place his nameplate: every detail of the lathe corresponds with illustrations in the Hines catalogues, also a reference may be made to Hasluck, The Metal Turner's Handybook, Crosby Lockwood, 1887, fig 18. It can safely be assumed that the machine has been a comprehensive whole since manufacture. Although the Hines firm was long in existence and their workmanship of the best few of the lathes seem to have survived. The slide-rest is however different from these pictures, being heavier and more sophisticated. This lathe was that owned and used by the late W.A.(Bill) Bourne, for seventeen years Hon.Sec. of the Society of Ornamental Turners and a practical turner and writer on the subject. The cutting frames are of the type devised and made by him for members.

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