7449-385 Holtzapffel & Company Ornamental Turning Lathe No. 1994 and Accessories, London

1852, marked on the headstock Holtzapffel & Co./64 Charing Cross/1994, the mahogany bench with flywheel, foot treadle, and fourdrawer accessory cabinet, iron bed with traversing mandrel, six-step headstock with main dividing head calibrated to 72, six-step brass driving wheel with dividing head of 96, 112, 144, 192, and 360 divisions, compound cross slide, tailstock, “Sheperd’s Crook”-type overhead crane and pulleys, eccentric and spherical chuck, oval chuck, faceplate, slide rest, and additional mahogany cabinet with chucks and other accessories, wd. 42, dp. 28, ht. including overhead drive 86 in. WITH: Holtzapffel & Co. Turning Tool Bits, mid to late 19th century, twelve steel bits marked Holtzapffel & Co., ranging in size from 8/16 to 16/16, housed in a hinged-lid wood box with two trays, bit lengths 7 to 11 1/4 in. Provenance: Ogden, The Pedigree of Holtzapffel Lathes, pp. 247-48 lists seven owners of this lathe starting with the second owner, Henry Pierrepont, Brooklyn, New York and then through family members by birth and marriage to Theodore R. Crom, Hawthorne, Florida, September, 1974. Equipped With: What is Ornamental Turning? OT WEBSITE: http://ornamentalturners.com/