A rare ornamental turning outfit by Holtzapffel,

The Property of THE LATE THE HON. PATRICK LINDSAY

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A rare ornamental turning outfit by Holtzapffel,
comprising lathe No. 2453 and a standing mahogany cabinet, the upper tier with mirror lined back and glazed doors, the lower tier with panelled doors enclosing drawers -- 88 in. (224 cm.) high

THE LATHE: 5-inch centre screw mandrel, brass pulley with standard six-row division plate, star nut, tangent screw and segment apparatus, screw-barrel tailstock, ornamental turning slide rest, treadle gear, double mahogany frame with iron bed and shepherd's-crook overhead drive for cutting frames.

THE CABINET: the upper tier containing five shelves with fitted contents as follows. References are to Holtzapffel's Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, giving Volume and Figure numbers.

Shelf One
13 brass cup chucks (IV 256)
6-screw bell chuck (IV 239)
Adapter chuck to another mandrel nose size
Die chuck (IV 20)
Wood screw worm chuck (IV 295)
Screw-hole chuck with three mandrels and three wire chucks to fit (IV 268-272)
6-inch faceplate (IV 288)
Metal-turning driver chuck and carrier (IV 212)
Socket chuck for drills and 12 spear-point drills (IV 237)
Indexed holder for pumping attachment rosettes
Six rosettes for pumping attachment
Six screw hobs for traversing mandrel

Shelf Two
Large universal cutting frame
Standard universal cutting frame (V 135)
Vertical cutting frame (V 90)
Extension tool bar
Small hole drill spindle with drill holder for sharpening (V 136-7)
Large hole drill spindle with drill holder for sharpening (V 136-7)
Eccentric cutting frame with key (V 193-4)
Two metal cutting tool holders for triangular cutters (II 441)
Babbage's gouge cutter bar (II 988)
Babbage's boring bar (II 986)
Internal cutting frame (V 139)
Index point and spring (IV 123)
Pair of spring dividers
Long internal horizontal cutting frame
Automatic segment drive
Curvilinear attachment for slide-rest with 15 steel templates (V 66-80) Turner's square/depth gauge (IV 426)
Turner's bevel gauge (IV 376)
Angle setting gauge for slide-rest (V 48)
Ashton's automatic drive parts for slide rest (V 61)
Automatic counting device for slide-rest (V 59)
Three sizes 'dancing master' internal/external calipers
Two steel set-squares and sundry keys, wrenches etc.

Shelf Three
9-inch two-jaw universal chuck and key (IV 286-7)
Screw extractor for cup chucks
Spiral apparatus (IV 164-171)
Drive unit for the spiral spherical slide rest
Atkinson's reciprocator (IV 174)
Four-prong chuck (IV 192)
Extension standard for oval chuck

Shelf Four
Rectilinear chuck (V 475)
Dome or spherical chuck (V 446)
Oval (ellipse) chuck and cam ring (V 428)
Bazley's oblique chuck
Rose chuck with attachment,standard for use of oval chuck and 24 rosettes
Eccentric chuck (V 410)

Shelf Five
Apparatus for face spiral work (IV 172)
Hand rest base with three tees
Tailstock drill pad and three centres
Three various carriers for metal turning
Fluting stops for the ornamental slide-rest
Further parts for the pumping apparatus
Further parts for the Ashton auto drive
Various boring bars, keys, spanners and other tools

Base of Cabinet
Six pipe-boring tools, with a quantity of wood pipe-making chucks (IV 769)
Ashton's automatic counting apparatus with three division plates and sixteen signed hardwood turning hand tools
Long internal horizontal cutting frame
Quantity of gut driving-bands
Three mahogany-handled bit and taps for chuck making
Twelve long-handled softwood turning tools
Variable drive apparatus for rose chuck

ADDITIONAL ITEMS
Hollow tool sharpening outfit in mahogany chest (III 1057)
Goneostat outfit in mahogany chest (III 1047)
Slope-topped mahogany chest with two drawers, containing 168 slide-rest tools, 180 cutting frame tools, 100 small drills, 72 large drills and a pad handle
A block containing 46 cutting-frame tools

Lot Essay

Lathe No. 2453 was supplied to Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock, of Wiseton, Doncaster, on December 23rd 1901. It remained in the family until 1952. It is unusual to find so complete an outfit, with its Holtzapffel cabinet, although there are one or two anomalies: there is no spring and clamp for the pumping apparatus, and the extension standard for the oval chuck is normally needed only when the chuck is supplied separately from the headstock. There is no boring collar and base, even though this normally seems to have been included with quite basic lathes.

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