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Large Gothic-style Burr Walnut Quarter-chiming Table Clock
Lot: 122Sold for: $3,000$2,400Large Gothic-style Burr Walnut Quarter-chiming Table Clock, ebonized cast brass finials atop the steep pitched case, sides and hinged back with pierced cloth-backed sound frets, unsigned engraved more ...
Monumental French Gilt-brass Mantel Clock
Lot: 123Sold for: $2,875$2,300Monumental French Gilt-brass Mantel Clock, last quarter 19th century, pineapple finial above the applied swag and floral decorated case, 6 1/2-in. convex roman numeral enameled dial with pierced more ...
French Inlaid Rosewood Carriage Clock
Lot: 124Sold for: $875$700French Inlaid Rosewood Carriage Clock, signed "H. Marc, Paris," repoussé brass handle atop the inlaid decorated case with viewing window, hinged brass bezel opening to the engine-turned silvered more ...
French Rosewood and String-inlaid Carriage Clock
Lot: 125Sold for: $1,000$800French Rosewood and String-inlaid Carriage Clock, signed "Potonie, Paris, 5904," repoussé brass handle above the roman numeral enameled dial marked as above, glazed access door inset into lid with more ...
Brass-mounted Mahogany Chain Fusee Bracket Clock
Lot: 126Sold for: $1,375$1,100Brass-mounted Mahogany Chain Fusee Bracket Clock, signed Lambert, Coventry St., London, cast brass mounted handle above the stepped molded top, brass stop fluted corner columns, pierced red fabric more ...
Gothic-form Chain Fusee Skeleton Clock
Lot: 127Sold for: $3,250$2,600Gothic-form Chain Fusee Skeleton Clock, England, 19th century, pierced brass anodized plates mounted to a burr walnut base with engraved plaque reading in part "Prize Medal 1862 J. Sewill more ...
Carved Mahogany Chain-fusee Bracket Clock
Lot: 128Sold for: $688$550Carved Mahogany Chain-fusee Bracket Clock, late 19th/early 20th century, carved dome-top above the beveled glass hinged door, fluted canted columns, pierced case side frets, and carved stepped more ...
Gothic-style Burr Walnut Table Clock
Lot: 129Sold for: $3,375$2,700Gothic-style Burr Walnut Table Clock, C.C. Webb, 1 Royal Exchange, London, ebonized cast brass finials and fencing atop the steep pitched case, sides and hinged back with pierced cloth-backed sound more ...
Variegated Marble Shelf Clock
Lot: 130Sold for: $438$350Variegated Marble Shelf Clock France, retailed by J.E. Caldwell & Co., brass dial matte with beveled glass hinged door, roman numeral brass dial, rear hinged glass door, eight-day, time and hour more ...
Mahogany Pinwheel Wall Regulator
Lot: 131Sold for: $1,250$1,000Mahogany Pinwheel Wall Regulator, mahogany case with glazed dial and lower doors, 11-in. enameled roman numeral dial, blued-steel hands, eight-day time-only movement with pinwheel escapement and more ...
Seventeen American and European Carriage, Travel, and Desk Clocks
Lot: 132Sold for: $875$700Seventeen American and European Carriage, Travel, and Desk Clocks, 19th and 20th centuries. more ...
Girl with an Egg Automaton
Lot: 133Sold for: $1,750$1,400Girl with an Egg Automaton, attributed to Leopold Lambert, c. 1890, with bisque head and hands, closed mouth, brown eyes, feathered brows, pierced ears, and blonde hair wig, dressed in a corset and more ...
Robert-Alfred Lienhard Brocade Engine
Lot: 134Sold for: $12,500$10,000Robert-Alfred Lienhard Brocade Engine, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, c. 1901, tri-foot shaped wooden bed, with four-spoke iron fly wheel, cast iron bed plate, rocking headstock with five rosettes, more ...
Holtzapffel & Company Converted Ornamental Turning Lathe No. 2277 with Extensive Collection of Accessories
Lot: 135Sold for: $13,750$11,000Holtzapffel & Company Converted Ornamental Turning Lathe No. 2277 with Extensive Collection of Accessories, London, 1872, mahogany bench with iron bed, traversing mandrel headstock, screw barrel, more ...
Ornamental Turning Slide-rest
Lot: 136Sold for: $1,750$1,400Ornamental Turning Slide-rest, possibly J.H. Evans, cast steel bed with dual sliding dovetails, 14-in. horizontal geared slide with fine adjustment wheel calibrated 0-9, upper bed with a 5 1/2-in. more ...
Ornamental Turning Slow Motion Drive
Lot: 137Sold for: $500$400Ornamental Turning Slow Motion Drive, horizontal steel shaft with brass gearing, with a four-spoke pulley, and an opposing wooden stepped pulley, lg. 20 1/2 in. more ...
Boxed Set of Steel Ornamental Turning Cutters
Lot: 138Sold for: $1,375$1,100Boxed Set of Steel Ornamental Turning Cutters, mahogany slant-lid box with approximately one hundred various profiled cutters in upper section, two lower drawers with an additional 290 cutters. more ...
Boxed Set of Steel Ornamental Turning Cutters
Lot: 139Sold for: $469$375Boxed Set of Steel Ornamental Turning Cutters, mahogany slant-lid box with central inset brass circular handle, approximately seventy-five various profile cutters in upper section, lower drawer more ...
Ornamental Turning Universal Cutting Frame
Lot: 140Sold for: $1,875$1,500Ornamental Turning Universal Cutting Frame, unmarked brass and steel cutter head with driving pulley, and a Jacobs No. 1A chuck, housed in a bench-made fitted box. more ...
Epicycloidal Ornamental Turning Cutting Frame
Lot: 141Sold for: $3,250$2,600Epicycloidal Ornamental Turning Cutting Frame, possibly Holtzapffel & Co., large frame with damascened plates, keys, and graduated gearing or changing wheels, housed in a fitted aftermarket box, more ...
Ornamental Turning Elliptical Cutter Frame
Lot: 142Sold for: $2,125$1,700Ornamental Turning Elliptical Cutter Frame, mid-19th century, brass and steel lathe attachment, with wood pulley and threaded screw adjustable scale calibrated 0-70 degrees, and additional brass more ...
Unmarked Ornamental Turning Brass Goniostat
Lot: 143Sold for: $213$170Unmarked Ornamental Turning Brass Goniostat, dovetailed oak case housing the unmarked Goniostat with the half-moon sector divided 50-0-50, unmarked steel arc, accessories, and three lower drawers more ...
Edward Hines Boxed Goniostat
Lot: 144Sold for: $281$225Edward Hines Boxed Goniostat, Norwich, England, damascened brass instrument marked as above, with the half-moon sector divided in 0-80-0 with steel arc marked 20-85, housed in a mahogany case with more ...
Ornamental Turning 5 1/2-inch Brass Three-jaw Chuck
Lot: 145Sold for: $313$250Ornamental Turning 5 1/2-inch Brass Three-jaw Chuck, stamped 1910, two-part chuck with screw bezel, and three composite jaws, male and female rear screw-mount. more ...
J.H. Evans Ornamental Turning Polishing Set
Lot: 146Sold for: $875$700J.H. Evans Ornamental Turning Polishing Set, brass and iron pulley with dovetailed bar, wood and steel base, and an assortment of cone-shaped polishers, housed in its original dovetailed mahogany more ...
Ornamental Turning Set of Brass Gearing
Lot: 147Sold for: $1,250$1,000Ornamental Turning Set of Brass Gearing, 7-in. dia. gear stamped "144," 4 1/2-in. dia. gear stamped "96," set of four small, graduated gears stamped "16/20/24/30," and a collection of steel arbors more ...
Ornamental Turning Tool Cupboard with Seventy-four Tools
Lot: 148Sold for: $2,250$1,800Ornamental Turning Tool Cupboard with Seventy-four Tools, many marked Holtzapffel & Co. with brass ferrules, and hardwood turned handles, housed in a dovetailed and paneled two-door hinged wall more ...
Collection of Ornamental Turning Books
Lot: 149Sold for: $1,063$850Collection of Ornamental Turning Books, five volumes of Holtzapffel's Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, London, c. 1843-84: vol. I, Materials; Their Differences, Choice, and Preparation (1843),more ...
Eleven Bound Volumes of The Bulletin of the Society of Ornamental Turners
Lot: 150Sold for: $1,000$800Eleven Bound Volumes of The Bulletin of the Society of Ornamental Turners, 1940s-1970s. more ...
Twenty-two Ornamental Turning Books and Catalogs
Lot: 151Sold for: $1,063$850Twenty-two Ornamental Turning Books and Catalogs, Holtzapffel's Construction, Action and Application of Cutting Tools; spiral bound copy of Patterns for Turning; Eccentric Turning; The Art of more ...