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7:00 AM PT - Mar 24th, 2007

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Massachusetts, MA .
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Science & Technology and Toys & Dolls

993 items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
1
Lot 1
Hammond Multiplex Typewriter, with two-row keyboard,

in oak bentwood case.

50
-
100
2
Lot 2
Child's Singer Sewing Machine, Model 20,

with hand cranked mechanism, black-painted frame with gilt...

300
-
500
3
Lot 3
National Cash Register, Model 9, No. 395121, in cast

bronzed case of typical style, ht. 17 x wd. 19 in.

800
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1,200
4
Lot 4
Eight Smoothing Irons and Tongs, including a brass 1

8th century iron with dolphin-form handle.

200
-
300
5
Lot 5
Clockwork Fly Trap, probably Japan, mid-20th century

, with stamped-brass automaton movement turning rectangular block...

150
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250
6
Lot 6
Silver-Plated Fire Trumpet, with etched designs of f

lowers, helmet, axe, lantern and ladders, eagle ring-holders, and...

400
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600
7
Lot 7
Group of Calculators and Slide Rules, including a Li

ghtning Adding Machine in maker's box.

100
-
150
8
Lot 8
Technical Metalware, three miniature brass mortars a

nd pestles; a wrought-steel shackle; and four bronze opium...

300
-
400
9
Lot 9
Quantitative Analytical Balance, by H. Kohlbusch, Ne

w York, with lacquered-brass pillar, nickel-plated beam and glazed...

200
-
300
10
Lot 10
Analytical Beam Balance by Griffin & Tatlock Ltd.,

Great Britain, with lacquered-brass pillar, divided beam with...

300
-
400
11
Lot 11
Extended Sike's Hydrometer, a Stop-watch and a Medi

cal Coil, Hydrometer by C. Beard & Son, London, with ten weights...

350
-
400
11A
Lot 11A
Sike's Hydrometer, with brass bulb, nine weights,

end-block, mercury thermometer, and two bone sliding alcohol...

250
-
350
12
Lot 12
Alligator Fossil, in plaster mount, wd. 29 x lg. 55

in.

800
-
1,200
13
Lot 13
Ebullioscope Levesque, France, with spirit heater c

onnected by hollow brass ring to content tube, the lip threading...

200
-
250
14
Lot 14
Five Boxwood Calculating and Other Rules, including

25-inch by John Rabone & Sons, Birmingham and 24-inch by...

400
-
600
15
Lot 15
Binary Slide Rule and Other Calculating Instruments

, by Tavella Sales Co., New York, copyright 1931 and 1940, the...

300
-
400
16
Lot 16
Cook's Postal Scale, patd. 1882, by American Scale

Mfg. Co., Boston, with cast-iron open frame, original black...

75
-
125
17
Lot 17
Weights and Balances, a postal scale on green onyx

base; a Superior Postal Scale with gilt transfer decoration and...

500
-
800
18
Lot 18
Quantitative Analytical Balance and a Ship's Stadim

eter, balance by Voland & Sons, New Rochelle, N.Y. for Central...

200
-
300
19
Lot 19
Pocket Coin Balance in Leather Case, with wrought s

teel arm, brass pans and suspension tassel, in tooled tricorn...

400
-
600
20
Lot 20
Brass Watchman's Clock, enclosed in a three-inch di

ameter brass case marked 288 inside front cover, ring carrying...

300
-
500
22
Lot 22
Eight-Day Lever Escapement Chronometer by Waltham W

atch Co., with silvered 2 3/4-inch dia. Roman dial, up-and-down...

1,200
-
1,500
23
Lot 23
Compensated Altimeter by J.J. Hicks, London, with 2

1/2-inch silvered dial, gilt-brass case, silk and velvet-lined...

300
-
500
24
Lot 24
Pocket Altimeter by Lufft, with 1 3/4-inch dia. sil

vered dial, scale with altitude, and blued steel needle, in maroon...

300
-
400
24A
Lot 24A
Pocket Altimeter, signed on dial R & J Beck, 31 Co

rnhill, London the 1 3/4 in. diameter silvered dial marked...

75
-
125
25
Lot 25
Early Pocket Compass, 18th century, with engraved c

ircular paper card, thirty-two point rose, steel needle and winged...

200
-
300
26
Lot 26
English Pocket Compass, late 18th / early 19th cent

ury, with paper card, thirty-two point rose, and steel needle with...

200
-
300
27
Lot 27
Three Pocket Compasses, the earliest by Negelein, w

ith hand-colored sixteen-point illuminated paper dial, an arrow...

400
-
600
28
Lot 28
Pocket Compass, with floating paper dial, Roman cha

pter ring and brass gnomon, in turned fruitwood case with...

300
-
400
28A
Lot 28A
Three Compasses, a surveyor's brass dip compass; a

gimbaled boat compass with 3-inch dia. floating paper dial, on...

300
-
400
29
Lot 29
Horizontal Compass Sundial by Watkins, Bristol, wit

h paper dial, thirty-two point rose, blued steel needle with...

400
-
600
30
Lot 30
Two Fruitwood Diptych Dials, Germany, one by Stocke

rt ? Bavaria, both with engraved paper tables.

300
-
400
31
Lot 31
Fruitwood Diptych Dial for the American Market, wit

h hand-colored paper chapter ring, eight-point compass rose...

200
-
300
32
Lot 32
Two Fruitwood Diptych Dials, 19th century, the firs

t with hand-colored paper tables, the lid listing latitudes of...

300
-
400
33
Lot 33
Pocket Weights and Balances, a late 18th / early 19

th century pocket balance in mahogany case; a nickel-plated pocket...

300
-
400
34
Lot 34
Pocket Coin Balance in Vellum-Covered Case, 18th ce

ntury, with embossed (originally gilt) lid design of flowers in...

800
-
1,200
35
Lot 35
Mahogany Marine Barometer by Spencer, Browning & Ru

st, London, with bone scale, wheel-adjusted vernier, mercury...

2,000
-
3,000
36
Lot 36
Marine Barometer by A. Reballis & Zoon, Rotterdam,

with arched bone scale, vernier, alcohol thermometer, rosewood...

800
-
1,200
37
Lot 37
Rosewood Marine Barometer by Adie, Optician, Liverp

ool, with door concealing bone scale with wheel-operated vernier...

1,000
-
1,500
38
Lot 38
Mahogany Stick Barometer by W. Hawks Grice, with si

lvered scale engraved W. Hawks-Grice, Bond St., London, vernier...

1,000
-
1,500
39
Lot 39
Victorian Oak Stick Barometer, with glass transfer-

decorated scale, twin wheel-operated verniers, mercury thermometer...

1,500
-
2,000
40
Lot 40
Victorian Mahogany Stick Barometer by J. Hicks, Lon

don, retailed by Theo Murndorff, 1167 Broadway, New York, with...

700
-
900
41
Lot 41
Mahogany Stick Barometer by Garney, modern, with tu

rned finals, glazed rectangular dial enclosure over silvered-brass...

800
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1,200
42
Lot 42
Barograph and Barometer by Henry J. Green, Brooklyn

, N.Y., No. 226, with two-train 4-inch dia. revolving drum, coil...

500
-
800
43
Lot 43
Hydrothermograph by Richard Freres, Paris, with clo

ckwork mechanism in drum, steel recording stylus, lacquered-brass...

150
-
200
44
Lot 44
Black Forest Aneroid Barometer, with paper scale, m

ercury barometer, and carved trunk of intertwined oak leaves...

200
-
300
45
Lot 45
German Aneroid Barometer, No. 1180, with mercury th

ermometer and carved oak case, ht. 21 in.

200
-
300
45A
Lot 45A
Black Forest Aneroid Barometer, with paper scale,

mercury thermometer, and foliate-carved walnut trunk, ht. 16 in.

200
-
300
46
Lot 46
ERCO "Compreg" 73-inch Airplane Propeller, by Engin

eering & Research Corporation, Riverdale, Maryland, with transfer...

400
-
600
47
Lot 47
Flottorp Wood Airplane Propeller, Grand Rapids, Mic

higan, No. 18709, stamped DES. 6152-48, with eight-bolt hub and...

600
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800
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