Joe I would like your opinion on an as is price if you wouldn't mind.
Given that Bill just sold one for $1000 and the fact that you're missing the pulley and flywheel (the feed rod, anchor and possibly connection are easily replicated) Perhaps $750 ask but shoot for $500 net.
The flywheel is essential to use of this machine by hand - which is one of the primary attractions. While hard to get an "exact copy" flywheel with the round rim section and curved spokes, a small to medium size gas engine flywheel could be adapted and serve.
The cone pulley is a simple affair and I probably have two that might be adapted with no one the wiser.
Or one could use it the way it is (it works!) and just count the changes as "historical adaptation." The changes were seemingly done "reversibly."
Still we're talking a machine that only four (five including the Smithsonian) extant examples exist.
This is almost into the realm of "between buyer and seller" on the basis of name brand and rarity.
Hope this helps...
Attached I have the 1878 P&W catalog page cut framed and hung on the wall above my shaper. (Thank you Ed Battison)
I believe she said he aquired from p&w storage locker, and was very fond of it.
If you can, remember her name and who her husband was. Some additional research by someone will yield his tenure and his service.
In other words, information that you or I casually brush by is possibly even more important than even the machine of our interest. We can, at extreme cost, replicate any 19th century machine. But information such as who, what, when, where - once lost can never be remade - at ANY cost.
I have a 19th century Shepard, Lathe & Co. Makers lathe in my shop (you see the outboard end of the bed in my shaper picture.) This lathe came to me as a "de-accession" at the New England Wireless & Steam Museum. It was outside their scope, occupying room they might use for steam display, and then Director Dan Fay took my interest to heart and eventually it came to me.
And that lathe came with a story that it was the work lathe of a 19th century Brown & Sharpe machinist who decided to bring it home and use it when B&S was doing some upgrading. His grand-daughter was now (1970s) elderly and was cleaning out her grandparents house for sale when she donated the lathe to the museum.
Dan Fay is now gone (2003 IIRC) I have since asked Bob Merriam (Founder and Director Emeritus) of NEWSM what he remembers of that grand-daughter or other details?
Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly who that machinist was who thought enough of his lathe to bring it home with him and preserve it for the ages?
Bob Merriam: "Lathe? What lathe was that? I don't remember a lathe."
Today I cannot connect a familial name, when B&S "cleaned out," who exactly this machinist was or any other information other than what I have said above. Something important (in my mind) has been LOST.
I should have paid more attention at the time. Today Bob Merriam is to be forgiven. A lot of machinery passed through his hands over the years and now he himself is no longer young. Our minds, and our memories IS a most fragile thing.
So gather as much information about your machine tools BEFORE you go to sell. Or even when you buy. In a lot of ways a sale is a REFORMAT of information regarding our machines. Information which gives our successors some additional indication on WHAT EXACTLY they are inheriting - and the technical and creational legacy of these machinists now long gone and forgotten.
I see Fred Jaggi (2016 Director of NEWSM) died in September. Fred was a "volunteer" at NEWSM Organization at the time of my purchase of the lathe.
Time eventually erases ALL we know about the past.
Joe in NH