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Lot 74
Sale 2064 - The Collected Home, Featuring Property from a Summer Thornton-Designed Chicago Residence
Lots Open
Oct 30, 2024
Lots Close
Nov 13, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$762
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Lot Description
Ducretet & Roger.
Wimshurst Electrostatic Disks.
1920
Wimshurst Electrostatic Disks.
1920
Mahogany, glass, brass, tin foil, and leather belts. Framework: 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 26 1/2 in., each disc diam.: 18 3/4 in.
Provenance: Acquired Auction Team Breker, 29 November 2003, lot 391.
Manufactured by "Ducretet & Roger, Paris", Wooden mahogany framework, a pair of contrarotating glass discs with strips of tin foil at the rims with 2 Leyden jars and manual of operation. An excellent exhibition and museum piece.
This lot is located in Chicago.