If you were just unfortunate in not getting the Picasso, here is your next opportunity for an investment. Only =A39600 needed to put you in the market- so far.
Norman
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E-Bay Lathe No 6276668512
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If they're going for 30k second hand there must surely be a market for so= me=20 enterprising eastern gentleman to consider tapping ?
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Hi Boo, When Jacob made his lathes, they were for the Crowned heads of Europe. Legend has it that their Coats of Arms were cast in the lathe legs. Cost- and I go back a million years ago- was " a street of houses" So, we are not far out with 'an eastern gentleman' and that they turned ivory.
A goniometer is the forerunner to the Quorn. Oops, wrong Forum.
Well, now?
Norm
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Maybe some other lathes would also fetch a better price on eBay if only the seller knew the maker, the model, the age, the history, what came with it, and provided pictures slightly better than a black cat in a coal hole.
It looks very good for sixty years of disuse in a dry shed. I suspect they also tool the time to clean it up a little before taking it to market.
Lets face it, if old lathes suddenly go up in value, then many of us are richer as a result !
Steve
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On the Practiical Machinist Forum, one of the regulars is writing about a proposed visit to Lenin- St Peteresburg Museums. He is interested in seeing the lathes from King Peter.
As I said, read my earlier posting
Norm