Antique Engine

Larter & Sons was particularly known for its use of innovative materials and techniques, including enamelwork, guilloche engraving, and engine turning. The company's designs were oft...

The bucket's maker, R A Lister & Co, was a prominent English engineering manufacturer that produced everything from agricultural machinery to diesel engines throughout the 19th and 2...

Fitted with a mirror and decorated at both sides with engine turned guilloche decoration topped with applications of translucent pale yellow enamel and rose flowers.

This beautiful desk timepiece is a rare strut clock, in the form of a gilded scallop shell, with an engine turned silvered roman dial set behind a bevelled glass with distinctive fle...

All sides are decorated with a white guilloche enamel showcasing the intricate engine turned design below; the top is adorned with hand painted pink/red roses and foilage.

The white enamel annular dial with black Roman numerals and an engine turned patinated bronze centre. Gilt bronze breget style moon hands.

Being from an upper class family, Farnsworth was well educated in England and later became a member of the British Royal Engineeers. While studying civil engineering in Paris, he bec...

By mid-century he was employing three men and two women and boasted a 3-horsepower steam engine for his production. Joslin was eventually succeeded by his son William, and their firm...

Fitted with nine barrels hinged lid, that can be raised by a simple thumbpiece. Embellished with engine turned geometric guilloche decoration and frames with carved incised designs.

Made of circular form with the lyd decorated with engine turned radiant guilloche decoration, topped with applications of translucent white enamel and embellished with a basket bouqu...

A Victorian Coromandel and Brass bound Dressing Case By Asprey The hinged cover with an inset brass monogram, the base with a jewellery drawer and two fitted internal trays, contai...

A very fine and beautiful piece of work with original fire gilding. The gilt and engine turned dial is surrounded by an ormolu bezel.

Here is Priceless-Oil Use it! and your engines will be forever young / Automobilistes! Voici la Priceless-Oil Adoptez-la!

From the watch movement, Japy went onto the pendulum and diversified into tools, engines, bicycle parts, lighting, garden furniture, pumps 1 , coffee grinders, typewriters , etc.

The caption below says "3500 Tons. Engine 1000 Horse power. Weight of Iron used in the Ship and Engine is 1500 Tons.

Decorated at both sides with engine turned guilloche decoration topped with applications of translucent vivid turquoise enamel with flowers.

Partially decorated with engine turned guilloche patterns Weight: 3.50 Grams, (2.24 Dwt).

They later diversified into pendulums, tools, engines, typewriters, bicycle parts, coffee grinders, lighting, and garden furniture with close to 5,000 workers at their factories in t...

There was a crew of 689 officers and enlisted men and propulsion was provided by two compound steam engines with twelve coal-burning fire-tube boilers.

Origin: France Measures: Clock Height 32" Width 21" Depth 7.5" Candelabra Height 28" Width 15" Depth 9.5" Style: Empire Great Antique condition Material: Bronze and marble Clo...

Both have spectacular engine turned Art Deco styling with plenty of space if you want to have them engraved with someone's name or initials.

Made of circular shape and embellished with magnificent engine turned guilloche decorations. The lid and the sides are applied with translucent royal blue enamel and encircled by fou...

He patented a method of grinding cocoa beans using a Watt steam engine, and as a result, factory techniques were introduced into the cocoa business.

The bodies feature intricate engine-turned and engraved decoration, creating a subtle interplay of texture and light.

Made in an oval bombe shape and fitted with a five barrels, a hinged push lid raised by a simple thumbpiece. Engine turned guilloche decoration topped with applications of translucen...

Made of rectangular form with curved edges and fitted with a five barrels hinged lid, that can be raised by a simple thumbpiece. Engine turned guilloche decoration topped with applic...

The drum is most unusual, I have never seen one with this intricate engraved and engine turned decoration to create a military style drum.

. : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto publishe...

Joseph Bramah was a leading inventor of the industrial revolution, patenting over 18 new ideas, including a new valve for the water closet (toilet), the hydraulic pump, a fountain pe...

Crafted with rectangular shape in solid platinum and yellow gold of 18 karats. Embellished with engine turned guilloche topped by green-blue glass enamels.

Some History: The Ford Trimotor (also called the "Tri-Motor", and nicknamed the "Tin Goose") is an American three-engined transport aircraft. Production started in 1925 by the compa...

Joseph Bramah (1749-1814) was a practical Yorkshire inventor, responsible for the first flushing toilet, a beer engine and a quill sharpener, inter alia; but, his claim to fame was t...

To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear ...

The dial is mercury gilded bronze (Bronze Doré) with engine turned centre and Breguet hands in blued steel.

This exhibition, following on from the success of the Paris 1801 exhibition, was organised with a system of rewards similar to that of the Salon of the Academy, and witnessed Objects...

The citation reads: Major-General Anderson, who directed the subsequent operations from the roof at the edge of the Magazine Compound, at a distance of some 20 yards, having ordered ...

The armature of the machine, set in motion by a small steam-engine, revolves at 500 times in a minute, at a short distance from the poles of a series of 64 permanent magnets, arrange...

Postnikov “Gold and Silver Manufacturing of the 15th-20th centuries" narrated that by 1897 the factory of brothers Khlebnikov possessed two steam engines and one steam boiler. They m...

Rectangular; cover flat and hinged with tab and thumb rest. Sides and underside engine-turned; cover top central same band between lobing.

Rectangular surround. On front wraparound engine-turned lines with engraved corner flowers and vacant rectangle on top rail; sides plain.

Rectangular and flat surround. On front engine-turned wraparound lines and rectangle (vacant) on top rail; sides plain.

Rectangular with straight sides; cover hinged with curved top. Engine-turned horizontal lines on sides; cover top same with central rectangle (vacant).

Rectangular with straight sides; cover hinged with gently curved top and molded rim. Engine-turned stripes in plain frames; on cover top central rectangle (vacant).

Window same with canted corners. On front wraparound engine-turned lines, and engraved leaves and flowers at corners.

A George III diamond and blue glass mourning ring, the urn set with a pear-shaped old-cut diamond estimated to weigh 0.35 carats and smaller rose-cut diamonds, applied on an oval blu...

Flat rectangular surround. On front, engine-turned vertical stripes, and horizontal oval (vacant); sides plain.

Rectangular surround with vertical engine-turned strips and beaded oval (vacant) in leafing scroll surround.

Rectangular window in wavy engine-turned surround with molded rim. Arched top and circular mono plate (vacant).

On front, patterned and wraparound engine-turned lines; sides plain. With glass, silk lining, and stained-wood back and hinged easel support for portrait (vertical) display.

On top parcel gilt with engine-turned ornament with wavy lines between honeycomb; sizes have diaper in trapezoidal frames.

Engraved ornament: Leafing rondels inset with heads alternating with same shaped frames (vacant) on engine-turned border. Shoulder has leaf-and-dart border and cover top leaf-and-pat...

An early twentieth century Faberge circular green enamel silver-gilt and gold pill box, the translucent grass green enamel upon an engine-turned guilloche ground with radiating patte...

A Fabergé gold, enamel and hardstone desk seal, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1904-1908 the spherical handle carved of aventurine quartz, the collar of translucent apple...

A Fabergé white enamel egg shaped miniature frame, the translucent enamel on an engine turned radiating guilloché ground, with a picture aperture surrounded by 40 seed pearls in a si...

A fine Cartier enamel and gold lorgnette, the lorgnette consisting of two circular lenses each within a yellow gold mount, the handle with exquisite rose enamel engine-turned backgro...

An Imperial Fabergé silver-gilt and enamel thermometer, of rectangular form with semi-circular ends, the surface enamelled in translucent royal blue over banded wavy engine-turning w...

An important Faberge gold and enamel frame, the frame comprising an oval glass photograph pane with yellow gold surround, within a rectangular frame exquisitely laid with a fine lila...

A Faberge pink & green enamel taperstick holder, the sconce of translucent pink enamel on an engine turned radiating guilloché ground, the pink column with two green enamel sections ...

The background of the paneled front is done with engine turned decoration. The inside of the box is clearly hallmarked, but again the maker could not be identified and the number 800...

Fitted inside with a mirror and decorated in both sides with engine turned guilloche decoration topped with applications of translucent vivid blue enamel and a polychromate scene of ...