Ho. Li. Crap. Talk about a score. The article in question was an older wood lathe - I own a small Jet lathe and enjoy working with it. This is a complete upgrade.
The lathe is a Nova DVR 3000 which was made (in New Zealand) by Teknatool. Unfortunately, the parent company seems to have gone out of business as I cannot locate a website but there is a branch in Florida so there is still some measure of support.
What clenched the sale was the boxes and boxes of tooling:
The lathe had been owned by a local man, Fred Holder, and there seems to have been quite a parallel life going on here. Fred passed away this July but during his life, he had been a blacksmith, a wood turner, he ran a print shop (I ran one for twelve years). He also published magazines for both interests as well as demonstrating his craft. His lathe has found a good home - I will be selling my old Jet lathe and building a stand for this new one.