Machine Age Exhibitions of Ornamental Turning

OT Exhibitions in the Machine Age

After the formation of the Society of Ornamental Turners in 1948, the number of public exhibitions showcasing OT increased significantly. Listed below are most of the subsequent public OT exhibitions that occurred during the Machine Age.

  • 1903 - Exhibition of Fabergé objects belonging to the imperial family of Baron von Dervis put on public display at their St. Petersburg mansion
  • 1904 - London branch of House of Fabergé opens
  • 1906 - Kiev branch of House of Fabergé opens
  • 1929 - Birmingham Science Museum
  • 1929 - Lady Gertrude Crawford Public Sale
  • 1949 - South-Eastern Association of Model Engineers, Bromley, Kent. (Reviewed in the Beckinham and Penge Advertiser, August 18, 1949)
  • 1949 - Chichester & District Society of Model Engineers (28 November 1949)
  • 1950 - Hull Model Engineers Society Exhibition
  • 1951 - Teddington Rotary Club Hobbies Exhibition, York House, Twickenham (March 14-17 1951)
  • 1951 - Conference of the Institution of Handicraft Teachers, Hendon Technical College
  • 1954 - Bath Rotary Club Hobbies Exhibition (May 1954)
  • 1956 - Model Engineer's Exhibition (30 November 1956)
  • 1958 - Society of Ornamental Turners Decadel Exhibition (20 September 1958)
  • 1958 - The First National Doctors' Hobbies Exhibition, Royal Society of Health, Buckingham Palace Road, London
  • 1961 - Society of Ornamental Turners Exhibition (27 May 1961)
  • 1968 - Perth Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
  • 1969 - Society of Ornamental Turners Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition (21 September 1968)
  • 1973 - Society of Ornamental Turners Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition

History takes good care of soldiers, statesmen and authors. But alas little is known, even among mechanics, of the men whose work was mainly within the engineering profession, and who served other engineers rather than the general public. Few realize that their art is fundamental to all modern industrial arts. They were busy men and modest, whose records are mainly in mechanical devices which are used daily with little thought of their origin.

Joseph Wickham Roe, author of "English and American Tool Builders" (1916)
Turners of the Machine Age
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Exhibitions in the Machine Age