A 8inch/21cm Dutch proportionnal dividers with micrometric screw by Jan Kleman ?, c. 1800
€400
Circa
1810-1820
Country of manufacture
Other
Description
A very good and quite unsual example of a good, large and cased Dutch, but English-type, proportionnal dividers measuring 8inch/21cm lenght and bearing the signature “K. J.”, certainly for Jan Kleman ?, and datable circa 1800. Jan Kleman was a Dutch maker etablished in Amsterdam between 1781 and 1808 between his son comes in the trade and the company takes the name Kleman & Zoon.
The proportionnal dividers is divided with two lines and has a very unusual micrometric screw.
Rare signature and rare model.
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