Holtzapffel & Deyerlein lathe No. 837,

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Holtzapffel & Deyerlein lathe No. 837,
with 4-inch common headstock, plain tailstock, screw-barrel tailstock with wheel adjustment, iron bed on double mahogany frame with treadle gear and nest of six drawers, small ornamental slide-rest (pedestal recently modified to slide in a cradle), hand rest, boring collar, slender turning support, fourteen various brass chucks, an eccentric chuck (not Holtzapffel), a brass faceplate, two three-jaw and a four-jaw chuck, eccentric cutting frame, approximately 40 thread-chasers by Holtzapffel abd others, some unhandled, eight knurling tools, approximately 20 other hand turning tools, various unfinished ornamental turning samples and a small quantity of drills, chucks and other 20th-century tools -- the bed 35½in. (90cm.) long, mandrel nose 0.708 in. x 13.26t.p.i., the brass division plate with 144, 120 and 96 holes

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Sale room notice

This Lot will be transferred to Messrs Cadogan Tate if not cleared by 1.00pm on Tuesday, April 17.

Lot Essay

Lathe No. 837 was supplied in 1815 to Henry Perigal (son of Francis Perigal II, of the watchmaking family), who lived in Devon. Ownership probably passed to his son, Henry II (known as 'Cyclops', and a keen turner), and then to Nicholas Brady, his great-nephew, at whose house (Rainham Hall, Essex) he lived in his later years. After the death of Brady in 1911 and his widow in 1916, the lathe passed to his nephew, George Emery, who lived at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire and subsequently to his son John Emery (d.1982), latterly of Glenalmond, Perthshire. It is now being sold as part of his widow's estate, having remained within one family from new.

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