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An unidentified late 19th/early 20th-Century German steel and lacquered-brass electrical instrument,
signed Paul Räth Leipzig, comprising a horizontal brass bar over a central vertical axis, around which turns a pierced steel wheel with three adjustable electrical contacts, and grooved wheels, moving over a brass horizontal plate with graduations around the circumference 0-100 and a small vernier with tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, supported on a T-shaped cast iron base, one leg stamped P.L., with two adjustable brass feet -- 15in. (38.1cm.) wide
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signed Paul Räth Leipzig, comprising a horizontal brass bar over a central vertical axis, around which turns a pierced steel wheel with three adjustable electrical contacts, and grooved wheels, moving over a brass horizontal plate with graduations around the circumference 0-100 and a small vernier with tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, supported on a T-shaped cast iron base, one leg stamped P.L., with two adjustable brass feet -- 15in. (38.1cm.) wide
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Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Sale room notice
Subsequent to cataloguing, it has been established that this instrument is a rheotome.