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ANTQUE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS. SURVEYING AND NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS. WATCHMAKERS’ TOOLS.

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

ANTQUE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS. SURVEYING AND NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS. WATCHMAKERS’ TOOLS.
A HAND-TURNED BRASS AND STEEL WATCHMAKERS LATHE with
helical driving gear, three-jaw chuck, tool rest, tool-post with two-way micrometer adjustment and tail stock, on rectangular mahogany base, bed length 17Un. (44cm.), distance
bet-ween centres 8in. (20cm.), English, circa 1860.
A    HAND-TURNED    WATCHMAKERS    ROUNDING-UP    TOOL
mounted on square mahogany base, [...]