An ornamental turning lathe signed Holtzapffel & Co., Charing Cross, London, No.2343, with iron bed, iron stand, mahogany backboard and board for chucks and accessories, flywheel, crankshaft and treadle gear, the upright (only) of a shepherd's crook overhead, common headstock with iron pulley and brass division plate of six rows (originally so made) and index, plain screw tailstock, hand rest base with two tees, small three-jaw chuck, ten brass and seven wood chucks and other items --48in. wide, 5in. centre height

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An ornamental turning lathe signed Holtzapffel & Co., Charing Cross, London, No.2343, with iron bed, iron stand, mahogany backboard and board for chucks and accessories, flywheel, crankshaft and treadle gear, the upright (only) of a shepherd's crook overhead, common headstock with iron pulley and brass division plate of six rows (originally so made) and index, plain screw tailstock, hand rest base with two tees, small three-jaw chuck, ten brass and seven wood chucks and other items --48in. wide, 5in. centre height

Lot Essay

Lathe No.2343 was sold on June 8th 1889 to J.R. West Esq. It subsequently passed to Richard Greaves of Wern House, Porth Madog. N. Wales, in or around 1900. Greaves was nephew to Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect of Porthmeirion, and was an engineer, whose great wealth came from ownership of slate quarries. He is also known about 1875 to have re-constituted the Japanese Navy, and later to have installed a water-driven electricity plant on his estate, making it the first in North Wales to have electricity. He was associated with Spooner in the founding of the Bala/Ffestiniog Railway. The lathe has not been used for many years.

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