Sale 9526 / Lot 43
A French two-plate Wimshurst machine,
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Price Realized (Set Currency)
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£411
- ($647)
- Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
Estimate
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£600 - £800
- ($944 - $1,258)
Sale Information
Sale
9526
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
4 December 2002
London, South Kensington
Lot Description
A French two-plate Wimshurst machine,
the two leyden jars moulded with SOCIÉTÉ ELECTROGÉNIQUE PARIS, the two 45cm. diameter ebonite plates each with thirty-two sectors, mounted on two ebonised wooden supports with two discharge rods and two leyden jars in situ, on an ebonised wooden base -- 19½in. (49.5cm.) wide, with an original instruction sheet for the machine from the Société Electrogénique dated 1892 for the CARBURATEUR A ACTION DOUBLE
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Special Notice
This lot, if not cleared by 1pm on the next business day following the sale will be removed to the warehouse of: Cadogan Tate Ltd., Fine Art Services Cadogan House, 2 Relay Road, London W12 7SJ. Tel: 44(0)20 8735 3700. Fax: 44(0)20 8735 3701. Lots will be available for collection following transfer to Cadogan Tate, every week-day from 9am to 5pm. An initial transfer and administration charge of £3.20 (Paintings) or £18.50 (Furniture/Objects) and a storage charge of £1.60 (Paintings) or £ 3.20 (Furniture/Objects) per lot per day will be payable to Cadogan Tate. These charges are subject to VAT and an insurance surcharge. Exceptionally large pictures will be subject to a surcharge.
Lots in this Sale
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HAEMORRHOIDS
Pr. £59($92) -
A syphilitic spongiform growth
Pr. £118($185) -
A surgical procedure to remove a
Pr. £59($92) -
An unusual [?]18th-Century silver
Pr. £259($407) -
A Customs Officer's Syke's hydrometer
Pr. £71($111) -
A fine mid 17th-Century Dutch Coin
Pr. £881($1,386) -
A 20th-Century lacquered-brass
Pr. £411($647) -
A standard yard and metre measure for
Pr. £353($554) -
A Crooke's-pattern cathode ray tube,
Pr. £353($554) -
A large Siemens therapy tube,
Pr. £188($296) -
A glass-encased battery cell,
Pr. £82($129) -
A large rotating cylinder crooke's
Pr. £588($924) -
Five various electrical tubes
Pr. £646($1,017) -
A 19th Century two-plate electrostatic
Pr. £999($1,571) -
Two two-plate wimshurst machines
Pr. £82($129) -
Five small two-plate wimshurst
Pr. £141($222) -
Two two-plate Wimshurst machines,
Pr. £376($591) -
A fine late 19th-Century two-plate
Pr. £1,645($2,588) -
A French two-plate Wimshurst machine,
Pr. £411($647) -
A fine 19th-Century German "experiment
Pr. £2,585($4,066) -
A van de graaf electrical generator,
Pr. £165($259) -
An Apps induction coil,
Pr. £59($92) -
A late 19th/early 20th-Century German
Pr. £235($370) -
Holtzapffel Lathe No 2456:
Pr. £5,875($9,241) -
An ellipse cutting frame,
Pr. £329($518) -
An epicycloidal cutting frame,
Pr. £2,585($4,066) -
Two cutting frames:
Pr. £235($370) -
Sharpening apparatus:
Pr. £235($370) -
A diptych case of tools,
Pr. £705($1,109) -
Books on ornamental turning:
Pr. £447($702)
