Boxed Brass Compass Circle, early 19th century, engraved dial numbered 0-360, centrally mounted rotating arm with two scales engraved 0-30 and 30-60, with two detachable knurled thumbscrews, in original mahogany blue velvet-lined box, circle dia. 9 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-06-01
Boxed Brass Compass, with brass spring-loaded case, 5 1/2-inch glazed opening with stationary dial divided 0-360, cardinal points in block letters and multi-prong needle, box Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
Boxed Brass and Wood Compass Microscope, probably early 19th century, wooden body, brass eyepiece, centrally located 90-degree brass arm holds the sliding specimen holder, mahogany Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
Boxed Brass Surveying Compass and Chains by Meneely & Oothout, West-Troy, New York, 6 1/2 in. dia. silvered brass dial signed Meneely & Oothout, West-Troy, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-01
Mahogany Boxed Dory Compass, Eugene H. Sherman, Seattle, c. 1900, set in brass gimbals, the dry card with cardinal points in block letters, outer ring Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-06-02
Brass Holland Circle, late 17th/early 18th century, with central engraved compass, open circular frame with cross-struts, divided around the outer edge 0-180-0-180 by 10s and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2002-04-13
Four-Vane Surveyor's Compass, early 19th century with mid 19th alterations, constructed from a mahogany-bodied surveyor's compass with printed dial signed James Gale, Salem and engraved Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-05-03
Lacquered Brass Graphometer, early 19th century, France, sight bar engraved Nebel Paris au Butterfield , inset silvered brass compass with eight-point rose, engraved border, steel Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-10-31
Brass Graphometer by Chapotot, Paris, the inset brass compass with eight-point rose, steel needle, needle ring and engraved border, in half-circle divided 0-180 in both Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-03
Gimbaled Boxed Compass, Cased Pocket Barometer, and Brass Ship's Bell Clock, 19th/early 20th century, the small compass marked "MERRELL NEW YORK," (bottom of box broken Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-20
Schmalcalder Patent Dip Circle and an Unmarked Prismatic Compass, London, 19th century, lacquered brass instrument with 6-in. sight with fine adjustment knobs, and sunshades, bubble Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2018-04-20
