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An ornamental turning lathe by Holtzapffel & Co.,
No. 2354, with Evans-pattern double-standard overhead with two cranes, iron bed on double mahogany frame, headstock with traversing mandrel, brass pulley with six rows of divisions, adjustable index, tangent screw and segment gear, three star nuts with six Holtzapffel hobs and additional hobs of 9, 13, 16, 18, 20, 24, 36 and 55 t.p.i. (with thread chasers), screw-barrel tailstock, hand-rest with four tees, flat rest and two bowl-turner's rests, boring collar with slender turning steady, set of large brass boring collars with base, rear-mounting spiral apparatus with extra wheels amd Atkinson's reciprocator, ornamental turning slide-rest with fluting stops, curvilinear apparatus and twelve templates (4 marked Holtzapffel), extra slide for rose work and hand lever, keys, cradle and bownut;
ellipse or oval chuck with worm-and-wheel nose, cam-ring and elliptical dividing compensator, eccentric chuck with ratchet nose, dome chuck, rectilinear chuck, brass faceplate with tapped holes, universal two-jaw chuck, four-jaw independent chuck, paper or tympan chuck, work chucks including six cup, a die-chuck and a woodscrew chuck and others, numbered to the lathe, boxwood chucks, mandrel chucks, paired screw-chucks and a Burnerd three-jaw s.c.chuck;
rose chuck signed Holtzapffel & Co., London, with built-in eccentric chuck, spring-operated device for fitting to headstock and thirty-eight rosettes;
universal cutting frame signed Holtzapffel, with spanner, horizontal cutting frame, vertical cutting frame and a home-made overhung vertical cutting frame, eccentric cutting frame with key, extendion tool bar, boring bar and slide-rest bar with nose thread to match lathe;
slope-topped mahogany cabinet with till top and two drawers containing 180 slide-rest cutters, adapters and tweezers, 144 eccentric cutting frame and 36 short universal cutting frame cutters, 128 small and 36 large drills with matching drill-spindles, flat-topped cabinet with till top and three slides containing brass, steel and oilstone laps, three tins of powder and a goniostat signed Holtzapffel, another flat-topped cabinet containing hollow-tool sharpening outfit and a floor-standing cabinet enclosed by two doors, with shelves and inner chest of drawers to contain the apparatus -- 47in. (120.5cm.) high, the lathe 42in. (107cm.) wide, centre height 5in., mandrel nose .780in. x 9.45 t.p.i.
