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A BURKHARDT ARITHMOMETER
Lot 241

A BURKHARDT ARITHMOMETER

KEUFEEL & ESSER CO, CIRCA 1900

Closed21 April 2016

Estimate

GBP 4,000–6,000

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A BURKHARDT ARITHMOMETER
KEUFEEL & ESSER CO, CIRCA 1900
signed on the brass plate GERMANY BURKHARDT ARITHMOMETER Keuffel & Esser & Co. New York Sole Agents. eight entry setting sliders, nine counters and sixteen windows to register results, two settings for addition & multiplication and subtraction and division, two typed instructions sheets in English in cupboard with chalk, printed instructions in German to inside lid, with two stamps applied advertising a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle


23 x 7½ x 4in. (59 x 19 x 11cm.)

Marked to lid HYDROGRAPHY U.S.G.S. and to brass engraved H U.S.G.S. 1601

Specialist note

Based on the design of Thomas de Colmar, Arthur Burkhardt issued his clones of the Arithmometer in the 1870s when "the machine deemed sufficiently successful to be worth copying" (Johnston, 1997). The quality of the working mechanism is still evident, and when first issued the machines would have been well treasured and certainly worth the price of $241.50 as advertised by Keuffel & Esser, in their Catalogue of 1899.