Steel Fusee or Barrel Engine, English, early 19th century, iron bar stock supports the work holder, cutter assembly and hand crank advance mechanism, together with an additional lead screw and crank, overall lg. 23 in. Note: This tool is disussed in detail in Crom #3, pp. 314-315. The present example descended in the Murray family of Rothbury, Northumberland, UK.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Steel Fusee Engine, France, 18th century, with turned wood handle, the engine with a great many points for fine adjustment of the cutting bar and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Germany, c. 1775, with a large looping bent steel spring and pivoted cutter mount with scrolled thumb-hold and flattened thumbscrew Read more…
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Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Steel Fusee Cutting Engine, France, mid-18th century, the cutter positioned by a bent steel spring and other adjustments made with flat thumbscrews, overall lg. 8 Read more…
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Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, bench-made, 20th century, vice held tool with fusee held between centers, the square arbor in fitted collet rotated with a Read more…
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Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, England, c. 1850, the hand-powered engine on three tapering iron legs, the cutter assembly and adjustments on a dovetail slide, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Switzerland, 19th century, a large example of this type of tool, with wood turning handle, pivoting cutter and ferrule, gnurled Read more…
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Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, possibly John Wyke, late 18th century, with open brass frame and multiple adjustments, the tool slide bears mark I WYKE Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Large Steel Fusee Engine, England, c. 1850, the freestanding hand-powered engine of the inclined bar type, with dovetail slide, overall lg. 28 in. Note: Read more…
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Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Iron and Steel Fusee Engine by J. & T. Jones, Prescot, late 19th century, stamped by the maker on the brass work holder and fusee Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Switzerland, first quarter 19th century, of variable lever type with pivoted cutter arm, and steel plates with inscribed reference numbers Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
