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Surveyor's Compass with Level by Troughton & Simms, London, re-lacquered brass, with unengraved 4-inch dia. dial, blued-steel needle supporting silvered needle ring with engraved divisions 0-360° , brass lifting arm, magnifier, 14-inch telescope engraved Troughton & Simms, London , and 10-inch vial, on four-screw leveling base, ht. 6 3/4 in., (mechanical functions defective, telescope once soldered, now detached); and a later tripod.


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Date:
2006-07-29

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