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An extremely fine and delicate early 19th Century brass and blued iron single cylinder condensing side lever beam engine
the builder's plate engraved 'John Burton Maker Bradford' the single small bore cylinder with inward facing truncated 'D' valve, decorative crosshead, side and valve rods, faceted side levers, the crank shaft mounted on four turned decorated columns, gear and belt driven dummy watt govenor and spoked flywheel, the whole mounted on the condensate tank with rod driven air pump, the tank sides decorated with scrolls and flowers and engraved 'This engine made for the King of the Lilly Prussians, the amazing power of ten butterflies by In... Burton, Bradford' -- 4 x 4¾in. (10.1 x 12cm.). Oval base
the builder's plate engraved 'John Burton Maker Bradford' the single small bore cylinder with inward facing truncated 'D' valve, decorative crosshead, side and valve rods, faceted side levers, the crank shaft mounted on four turned decorated columns, gear and belt driven dummy watt govenor and spoked flywheel, the whole mounted on the condensate tank with rod driven air pump, the tank sides decorated with scrolls and flowers and engraved 'This engine made for the King of the Lilly Prussians, the amazing power of ten butterflies by In... Burton, Bradford' -- 4 x 4¾in. (10.1 x 12cm.). Oval base