I recently came across this old pantograph and thought worthy of posting here for interest sake. Not sure if anyone here saw it for sale?
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I later discovered when picking it up that it came from the estate of and was owned by Sir Lionel Hooke (the property later inherited by the family who appear not to have cleaned out the original shed for quite some time til just recently). The family apparently had no interest. I missed out on the lathe, small shaper, mill and other things that the 'Picker' had for sale. However there was still lots of old electrical equipment (as you might expect if you look up Lionel's background) and tools and various things (including the 1940s stuart 10h engine which i did get), but much of what remains from the 'picker' i bought the machine from intends to hold a sale of the remaining treasures.

I liked the look of the pantograph, and that it fit on a bench top. Couldn't find anything like on the net that looked remotely like it apart from this one on the lathes uk web site under Taylor Hobson pages.

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Other more modern taylor hobson machines had a few similar components, but the rest of my machine was quite different to everything else around.
Amazingly I stumbled across a web site that had this image which is almost my exact machine, couldn't believe it - but the age .

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The quote from where the image came from for reference identified the source as originating from The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review. Vol. 28, Whole No. 700, April 24, 1891. (London: H. Alabaster, Gatehouse & Co., 1891): 530. Digitized by Google from the NY Public Library copy and available via the Hathi Trust (Hathi ID: nyp.33433062756634)

Would be good to find some more images of machines of similar vintage, though it appears that by 1895 this design was already outdated.The Pantograph itself is in amazing condition despite its age with everything it very good order.

will post some images of the old drive mechanism later

cheers
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