447 Comments for Maison Kirsch

Another wonderful bed in this house---I keep wondering, when looking through various albums of abandoned places, why no one who ends up owning places like this rescues some of the wonderful pieces of furniture I see left in them? Anyone have any ideas? It seems so crazy to let wonderful furniture like this go to waste!

Mr. Motts, fantastic photo.

Such a lovely piece. The thought of the clock being there and the shelves filled with literature is a beautiful notation.

What a beautiful find. To see a piece of history in good condition still in it's environment is a privilege.

Too funny. Scrolling through today I noticed it for the first time and realized what it is only to find I have been beaten to the punch. :) I did not know it was called a shooting stick but I did know it was a walking stick/seat. Good call crankbv1.
Apropos your previous post We used to have an egg beater in my home back in the 70's. Since I have been on my own and cooking on my for myself I use a fork. :)

Location confirmed--Shrute Farm

To sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream...

Wow! I remember my grandmother having a fridge like that. She called it an icebox.

I keep coming back to certain galleries...and this one is a favorite. What came to mind this time is that this seems like it was pretty fancy and expensive furniture for the time, probably "top of the line" as they say. Which further makes me think that this family must have been pretty well off.

that was a grandfather clock in the center of the bookcase

Wow. Weird entrance. I sort of expect to see the floating candle holder from the haunted mansion at Disneyland :-)

Thanks for your verification re the Odontograph prints Mott. Being now in an age when such calculations can be done on Cad-Cam in a fraction of the time taken back then,these prints are rarer than hens teeth. If I ever heard that the contents of the house are to be auctioned I would certainly put in an on line bid for them with a view to having them framed up for display,much the same as collectors do with maps and hand written deeds and documents. Most would regard them as worthless, but to some this is industrial art in its own right and deserves to be preserved. Regards and many thanks to you and Opacity from the UK.

It certainly is - I just found an old Elements of Mechanism book which has the same kind of drawings for gear mesh, backlash, and related calculations. Thanks!

Oh boy...where to start. As an old engineer with 46 years behind me I know what we have here albeit that it is the last thing I would expect to find lying around in an abandoned house. What you are looking at here is a copy of something called Grant's Odontograph and which provides the nomenclature necessary to create accurately meshing gear teeth of various shapes and sizes. It provides all the calculations necessary to ensure that when the teeth of two gears engage each other they sweep together perfectly with little or no backlash. The calculations are complex and...well...you just don't want to go there. I had to blow the dust off my old Machinery's Handbook just to verify that it was what I thought it was. Someone in that house was almost certainly a design engineer for anyone less qualified would have no understanding of the system and the mathematics needed to apply it. The mystery of the old house just gets thicker,doesn't it?

Wow, I've never seen one of those before... pretty neat, thank you for identifying that!