H. M. Shepherd made a small metalworking lathe that appears to be lathe 19th or early 20th century.
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- A search for this name failed to produce any hits. We tried various first names—Henry, Howard, Herman, Hugo, Harold—and the only match we found was to a Harry M. Shepherd of Seneca Falls, NY, who was awarded patent 1,517,176 in 1922, for a "device for truing valves". The rather odd little lathe seems like it was intended for some specialized operation, and truing valves is as likely an application as any.