ELEGANT FOLDING RULE by SAUTOUT-CHOIZY, ca.1690
Euro 580'
Circa
ca. 1690
Country of manufacture
France
Description
ELEGANT FOLDING RULE by SAUTOUT-CHOIZY, ca.1690
A 3 3/8” (8.6 cm); 6 3/8” (17.2 cm) fully open folding brass rule with decoratively shaped joint-reinforcement element and alignment pin, hand-graved Demi pied du Roy and Lignes, and reading to 6 pouces.
The pouce is a French inch slightly longer than the English inch.
The joint is elegantly engraved on each face with a traditional flower-and-leaf design, shaded to give it depth.
Mint condition.
Pierre Sautout-Choizy (active 1682 – d 1714) at Quai de l’Horloge à Paris (en 1682), was apparently a maker who produced a relatively few instruments. A folding rule is at Metropolitan Museum NY, a graphometer at the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, a collection of some at Harvard (Marcelin, ad vocem).
An identical rule (in silver) is in the Rocca Coll. (Circinus 2024, n.61) and another one in Alpern Coll. (n.61).
A RARE FOLDING RULE IN PERFECT CONDITION
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Alpha et Omega
Alpha Et Omega
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