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C1890 FULLY WORKING LOCKING COMPASS BRASS CASING WITH LID , GOOD COND. 2 in. DIAMETER
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NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS , GOOD CONDITION
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FINE FULLY WORKING COMPASS WITH WOOD SCREW ON LID CASING 2.5 in DIAM., EXCELLENT
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GOOD WELL WORKING CONDITION , NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS. THIS IS REALLY A LOVELY ITEM
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WORKING SMALL WELL HALLMARKED SILVER HALLMARKED COMPASS DATED 1897 by FRANCIS BAKER
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GOOD CONDITION, NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS, FULLY WORKING, VACANT CARTOUCHE, MADE BY FRANCIS BAKER & SONS
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C1850 POCKET LOCKING COMPASS FULLY WORKING WITH CASE HALLMARKED B & S
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NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS, WORKS WELL LEATHER MORROCAN LEATHER CASE
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~LARGE, COMPLEX COMPASS/SUNDIAL c.1750~(ON HOLD)
The main compass body is brass with a hand coloured paper overlay. Extremely ornate compass rose and oddly, unsigned.
The compass needle is very slender, ornate and still points North. The pivot is brass and eared c.1750. The paper dial is divided into three (3) scales. A Mariner’s 360 degree (inner) in one degree divisions, a Miner’s 0-32 hour middle ring (each hour being 12.5 degrees- 1/4 hour divisions) and a surveyor’s outer ring (4 quadrants of 0-90 degrees).
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19TH CENTURY POCKET GIMBAL MOUNTED COMPASS, 2.8cm diam , MAHOGANY CASE, GOOD WORKING COND.
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19th CENTURY BRASS GIMBAL MOUNTED POCKET COMPASS ,FULLY WORKING
ALL IN GOOD CONDITION
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Flag panel marine telescope – Gray & Keen, Liverpool.
Quite large, single draw, measuring 20 inches long when closed and 34.75 inches fully open with ray shade, dust slider to the eye piece and coloured flag panel inset to the brown leather covered barrel. Signed near the eye piece, ‘Gray & Keen, Liverpool. Day or Night’ (they worked from 1847 – 1855).
The lenses are damage free and the telescope gives an excellent clear image. The leather is intact. A little loss to the top of the horn covering Read More...
3 draw portable telescope in case – Baker, London.
A brass 6 draw telescope signed on the first draw, ‘Baker, 244 High Holborn, London’, measuring 10.5″ closed and 32″ fully extended with a main lens of 2.25″ diameter. It has a leather covered taper barrel, sun visor, lens cap, dust slider to the eye piece and an additional pancratic eye piece tube with powers engraved for 25, 30 and 35 x. The lenses are damage free and the telescope gives a good, clear image.
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Four draw telescope – Ross.
A four draw brass telescope, the first draw is engraved, ‘Ross. London. No 25758’. Also engraved with the initials, ‘B.M.’ (presumably the owner).
The telescope measures 26 cm when closed and 85 cm fully extended with a main lens of 42 mm.
The first draw is a pancratic eye piece with indicated magnifications of 20, 25 and 30 x.
Very clear to look through with damage free lenses.
The number of the telescope (25758) estimates it’s production of around 1895.
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SEXTANT BY JAMES HENRY STEWARD. LONDON
COMPRISES OF SILVER SCALE & VERNIER, SCALE DIVIDED IN 10′ MINUTE DIVISIONS, VERNIER READING TO 10″ SECONDS OF ARC, RADIUS 6.1/2″ INCHES, SIGHTING TUBE, WIDE ANGLE ERECTING SCOPE, LONG INVERTING SCOPE WITH TWO EYE-PIECES & CROSS HAIRS IN BOTH. TWO PUSH-ON FILTER CAPS, SCREWDRIVER AND MIRROR ADJUSTING KEY. ALL TELESCOPES HAVE INTERRUPTED THREADS AND MOST OF THE ACCESSORIES ARE NUMBERED 861 MAHOGANY HANDLE WITH IVORY BACKING FOR RECORDING ALTITUDES/READINGS ETC. BAISE LINED MAHOGANY BOX 10″ x 9.1/2″ x 5.1/4″ Read More...
Early Victorian Cooke’s Drainage Level in Mahogany Case Retailed by L Casella & Co
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For sale, an early Victorian Cooke’s Drainage Level in original mahogany case retailed by L Casella & Co, London.
This simple level engraved with Cooke’s Drainage level to one side of the barrel and to L Casella and Co to the other, has a short 18cm brass barrel with “superior telescope, cross lines etched on the glass and ball and socket joint” as described in Casella’s catalogue of 1860. It has an integral bubble level fitted within the top of Read More...