Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2502Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 01, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Small Iron Bench Vice and a Brass and Steel Broaching Lathe, 19th/20th century, the vice American in the "Prentiss" pattern with a pivoting rear jaw, holding the Swiss turn having a long curving hand rest, ht together 4 1/2, wd. 6, dp. 8 1/4 in.
Note: A similar vice is shown in figure 609 from Crom #2, a reprint of a page from Levy, Dreyfus & Co's tool catalogue. In addition, Crom #2 shows an earlier version of a broaching late on p. 509, in figure 1004.
Estimate $100-125