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A rare 19th-Century brass and walnut Ramsden-pattern electrostatic machine,
unsigned, but probably by Pixii, the 33cm. (13in.) diameter glass disc held between two pairs of leather-covered pads in a walnut frame with turning handle (finial missing), the two brass conductors each with a U-shaped comb with red-painted ball ends and each raised on two glass columns from the walnut base -- 59cm. (23¼in.) wide; with a 4-jar battery in a compartmentalised mahogany box with two brass carrying rings, each covered with silver foil and containing silver and gold foil, sealed with red wax, the brass ball finials connected by a brass rod cross with suspension loop, the three larger jars -- 15.5cm. (6 1/8in.) high; together with three hooked brass conductors for hanging the jars, two larger leyden jars containing gold and silver foil with hooked conductors, a tin water-expansion jar painted blue with gilt trim containing a second tin jar with matching top, the side painted with coloured rings, and an ebonised wooden insulation stool with green glass legs
See Illustration (6)
unsigned, but probably by Pixii, the 33cm. (13in.) diameter glass disc held between two pairs of leather-covered pads in a walnut frame with turning handle (finial missing), the two brass conductors each with a U-shaped comb with red-painted ball ends and each raised on two glass columns from the walnut base -- 59cm. (23¼in.) wide; with a 4-jar battery in a compartmentalised mahogany box with two brass carrying rings, each covered with silver foil and containing silver and gold foil, sealed with red wax, the brass ball finials connected by a brass rod cross with suspension loop, the three larger jars -- 15.5cm. (6 1/8in.) high; together with three hooked brass conductors for hanging the jars, two larger leyden jars containing gold and silver foil with hooked conductors, a tin water-expansion jar painted blue with gilt trim containing a second tin jar with matching top, the side painted with coloured rings, and an ebonised wooden insulation stool with green glass legs
See Illustration (6)
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