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An Adams double-action air pump, English, early 19th century, 5 image 1
An Adams double-action air pump, English, early 19th century, 5 image 2
Lot 57Ф,Y

An Adams double-action air pump,
English, early 19th century,
5

23 – 24 February 2021, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,040 inc. premium

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An Adams double-action air pump, English, early 19th century,

signed Adams London, the brass and mahogany pump with double vacuum cylinders and racked rods, ivory maker's plaque, and two large and four small spherical brass finials, 16in (41cm) high, 5

Footnotes

Provenance:
Totness Grammar School where Charles Babbage was a student, the pump was purchased at a car boot sale at the school in 2017. Sold with this lot is a letter of provenance and a print showing the air pump in the school laboratory.

Literature: Millburn, John R., 'Adams of Fleet Street – Instrument Makers to King George III' (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000)

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