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Brass Machine-a-Raboter
Lot: 151Sold for: $2,607$2,200Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, last half of the 19th century, bench held tool with steel runners for holding the work, pivoted cutter frame with circular cutter and sliding attachment for more ...
Brass Machine-a-Raboter
Lot: 152Sold for: $7,703$6,500Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, late 19th century, brass vice held tool with steel runners to hold the work, sliding cutter assembly above and a hinged mahogany box filled with accessories and more ...
Brass Machine-a-Raboter
Lot: 153Sold for: $3,318$2,800Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, late 19th century, bench held tool with work holder, table with rollers for sliding file attachment, crank handle advance and additional accessories, lg. 14 more ...
Brass Machine-a-Raboter by A. Janneret
Lot: 154Sold for: $2,133$1,800Brass Machine-a-Raboter by A. Janneret, Locle, mid-19th century, the bench held tool engraved on the bed A. Janneret Machiniste au Locle, steel runners to hold the work and three sliding file more ...
Brass and Steel Machine-a-Roboter
Lot: 155Sold for: $4,444$3,750Brass and Steel Machine-a-Roboter, Switzerland, c. 1800, the filing slide moves between four rollers, on a brass frame and steel base, mounted on a modern stand, with additional slides and more ...
Four Items Relating to the John Matzinger Watch and Clock Shop
Lot: 155ASold for: $385$325Four Items Relating to the John Matzinger Watch and Clock Shop, 1298-1300 Broadway, New York, late 19th century, including two framed photographs showing the interior of the Matzinger shop more ...
Pole Lathe from the Richard Oliver Casemaking Shop
Lot: 156Sold for: $563$475Pole Lathe from the Richard Oliver Casemaking Shop, 25 Spencer Street, Clerkenwell, London, c. 1900 the pine bench with single leg and shoe foot supports an iron frame lathe powered by a foot more ...
Two Casemaking Tools from the Richard Oliver Shop
Lot: 157Sold for: $207$175Two Casemaking Tools from the Richard Oliver Shop, England, 19th century, both tools, one for case flattening, the other for annealing, both from the shop on Spencer Street in Clerkenwall, England, more ...
Two Case Hinge Jigs From Richard Oliver's Watch Casemaking Shop
Lot: 158Sold for: $296$250Two Case Hinge Jigs From Richard Oliver's Watch Casemaking Shop, England, 19th century, and other items including a drilling template, and a lock, jigs 6-7 in. Note: Quite a number of pages (pp. more ...
Brass Dial-indexing Tool
Lot: 159Sold for: $356$300Brass Dial-indexing Tool, Switzerland, c. 1890, the dial is tightened to the center of the wheel under the brass arm, and the wheel is spun to each notch, which indicates where each of the sixty more ...
Brass and Steel Dial-indexing Engine
Lot: 160Sold for: $1,304$1,100Brass and Steel Dial-indexing Engine, France, late 18th century, with pivoting brass and steel arms and an adjustable thumbscrew-tightened pin, and rings of holes for the accurate and regular more ...
Large Assorted Group of Watchmaking Tools
Lot: 161Sold for: $948$800Large Assorted Group of Watchmaking Tools, 19th/20th centuries, including staking tools, polishers, balance spring tools, stone setting tools, swing tools, screw extractors, a depth gauge, and more ...
Group of Brass and Steel Watchmaking and Jewelling Turns, and Various Other Tools
Lot: 162Sold for: $415$350Group of Brass and Steel Watchmaking and Jewelling Turns, and Various Other Tools, France, England, and Germany, mostly 19th century including drilling turns, pivoting tools, and others, some more ...
Large Assortment of Watchmaking and Jewelling Tools
Lot: 163Sold for: $1,304$1,100Large Assortment of Watchmaking and Jewelling Tools, 19th and 20th centuries, including swing tools and swing tool frames, boxed sets of arbors, pivot polishers, polishing laps, boxed countersink more ...
Assorted Lot of Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools
Lot: 164Sold for: $1,541$1,300Assorted Lot of Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools, 19th/20th centuries, including staking tool, barrel-closing tools with attachments, a box mill, a "Pallet Jewel Setter" in original box, a brass more ...
Six Watchmaker's Tools
Lot: 165Sold for: $166$140Six Watchmaker's Tools, America and England, 19th/20th century, including two steel hand vices, one marked PS STUBS; a steel-mounted wood hand vice (cracks); an iron bench vice; an iron and aluminum more ...
Six Bluing and Soldering Tools
Lot: 166Sold for: $207$175Six Bluing and Soldering Tools, 19th/20th centuries, five with turned wood handles, the tools to be used over the heat of an alcohol lamp, lg. 7 3/4-9 1/2 in. Note: Crom #2 p. 374 (figure 764) more ...
Assortment of Mostly Brass Cylinder Escapement-related Tools
Lot: 167Sold for: $711$600Assortment of Mostly Brass Cylinder Escapement-related Tools, 19th/20th centuries, the tools specifically designed for the manufacture and repair of cylinder escapements: stakes, gauges, a vice, and more ...
Six Iron and Steel Pin Vices
Lot: 168Sold for: $711$600Six Iron and Steel Pin Vices, probably England, mid 19th century, all of similar design with shaped handles, one with wooden handle, lg. approximately 5 1/2 in. more ...
Six Steel Pin Vices
Lot: 169Sold for: $326$275Six Steel Pin Vices, probably England, mid 19th century, all of similar design with shaped handles and wing nut clamping of jaws, lg. approximately 4 1/2 in. more ...
Six Hand Vices
Lot: 170Sold for: $148$125Six Hand Vices, England and America, late 19th/20th centuries, of different design, three with turned wood handles, all the examples marked including PS STUBS and JM HOFF & LANGE, lg. 5-8 1/4 in. more ...
Four Hand Vices and a Steel Folding Multi-use Tool
Lot: 171Sold for: $267$225Four Hand Vices and a Steel Folding Multi-use Tool, England, 19th/20th century, the two large hand vices with turned wooden handles, one with a pivot adjacent to the mount, the other with a more ...
Lot of Steel Watchmaker's Hand Tools
Lot: 172Sold for: $830$700Lot of Steel Watchmaker's Hand Tools, including pin and hand vices, dividers, tweezers and pliers, max. lg. 6 1/2 in. more ...
Five Pairs of Steel Sliding Pin Tongs and an Iron Shear
Lot: 173Sold for: $89$75Five Pairs of Steel Sliding Pin Tongs and an Iron Shear, 19th/20th centuries one pair of tongs marked ACIERFONDU, the shear marked PS STUBS, lg. 5-8 in. Note: Crom #3 has images of these types of more ...
Assorted Lot of Mostly Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools
Lot: 174Sold for: $2,963$2,500Assorted Lot of Mostly Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools, England, Switzerland and America, 19th/20th century, including two boxed Ingold Fraise cutters, other uprighting tools, a mainspring winder more ...
Group of Assorted Watchmaker's Tools
Lot: 175Sold for: $148$125Group of Assorted Watchmaker's Tools, America and England, 19th/20th centuries, including a set of cork borers, a leather knife, a brass and steel turn, a pin filing turn, a barrel closing punch more ...
Large Group of Mainspring-related Tools
Lot: 176Sold for: $207$175Large Group of Mainspring-related Tools, France, Switzerland, and England, 19th and 20th centuries, including three barrel-closing stakes, several pairs of various pliers, and ten mainspring more ...
Brass and Steel Turn and a Mainspring Winder
Lot: 177Sold for: $119$100Brass and Steel Turn and a Mainspring Winder, Late 19th century, a standard Swiss pattern turn with manufactured brass flywheel and pull string to continually advance the work in the same direction, more ...
Four Brass and Steel Watch Mainspring Winders
Lot: 178Sold for: $119$100Four Brass and Steel Watch Mainspring Winders, mostly England, 18th/19th century, three with u-shaped brass frames and turned ivory or wood handles, the other of later 19th century design and more ...
Four Brass Watch and Clock Mainspring Winders
Lot: 179Sold for: $356$300Four Brass Watch and Clock Mainspring Winders, of various designs, periods and condition. more ...