$356
Two Brass Rounding-up Tools, Switzerland or France, c. 1875, the first, a vice-held gear-powered tool with a lever adjusted arbor fixed to a dovetail slide (turned wood handle broken), lg. 9 1/4, ht. 5, wd. 7 in.; the second, a vice-held crank-powered tool, pivoting arbor, brass pulley, uprighting frame on a dovetail slide, lg. 10, ht. 8, wd. 5 1/2 in. Note: See Crom #2 for a discussion of these tools on pp. 590-593, with the first of these tools pictured as figure 1166.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01