An ornamental lathe with tambour top

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An ornamental lathe with tambour top
by Holtzapffel & Deyerlein, No. 489, the semi-circular top pivoting on the double mahogany frame, the tambour section hanging between the rear legs in the open position, with iron bed, treadle gear, six drawers, traversing mandrel headstock with dividing plate (eight rows of holes), later tangential attachment, star-nut and six screw-hobs, various plain brass chucks, hand-rest, boring collar and various keys including oval-handled Bramah key for the tambour -- 5 in. centre height, 42in. (107cm.) wide overall; an o.t. slide-rest (lacking bow-nut); and an engineer's slide-rest

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Lathe No. 489 was supplied to Thomas Hankey on October 23rd. 1819 (although the serial number suggests a manufacturing date of 1806). Hankey was a city banker; the lathe was inherited by his son Montague, a clergyman who was Rector of Maiden-Newton, Dorset, from 1868 - 1913. He had the lathe head rebuilt by Holtzapffel in 1895. Subsequent to his death in 1919, most of the equipment that must have accompanied the lathe was lost. The tambour top is a rare feature.