1st Nov, 2018 12:00
Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science & Medicine
A Victorian Electro-Medical Shock Machine
c.1860, English, signed to coil and trade label 'SAMUEL TOWNSEND, ELECTRICIAN, DERBY', coil mounted on French polished mahogany plinth with all lacquered brass fittings, coil with green leather covering with gold tooling to edge, glass bichromate cell, hand electrodes with turned boxwood handles, printed instructions to lid, in original stained pine case, width 23cm
Sold for £240
Result plus buyers premium
c.1860, English, signed to coil and trade label 'SAMUEL TOWNSEND, ELECTRICIAN, DERBY', coil mounted on French polished mahogany plinth with all lacquered brass fittings, coil with green leather covering with gold tooling to edge, glass bichromate cell, hand electrodes with turned boxwood handles, printed instructions to lid, in original stained pine case, width 23cm
Auction: Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science & Medicine, 1st Nov, 2018
