VERY CLEAN THOMAS BLUNT SURVEYING COMPASS WITH SUPERB SILVERED COMPASS ROSE IN SIX INCH SQUARE MAHOGANY BOX, OLD REPAIR TO LID. Contact Email: [email protected]Read More...
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MANUSCRIPT BOOK SEA PILOTS LOG BOOK QUEENS HARBOUR MASTER SPITHEAD PORTSMOUTH 1869
This is a fascinating Original Manuscript book kept by the Queens Harbour Master, a Pilots Log Book recording all the vessels that were guided through the Solent, Spithead into Dock. The book commences on Sunday March 21st 1869, and finishes on 21st July 1869 running to fifty used pages, all fifty pages are fully used except the final leaf.Packed with Read More...
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An English Victorian foot measuring device with a telescope system and made from ebony and brass. There are two scales on the instrument, english inches from 0 to 12 inch (30,5 cm) which is one foot and one scale where 26 (split into 0 to 12 and 0 to 14) units will be 18,8 cm so each unit is 0,72 cm. Length 22,2 cm and in extension 36 cm.
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An early English brass folding ruler with three different dimensions, Date 1753. In addition, on the folding action of the year 1753 (same engraving as the scale). This can be either a right-angle corner as “triangle” shapes with the legs of the sector. The following three scales are on the ruler:
Side 1: Total length of 12 english thumbs which is a foot (12 thumsbs is 30,5 cm). There is a heart engraved under the number of 12.
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Antique Apothecary Box, ca. 1850 – 1870, box measures 7″ x 7″ x 8 1/4″ (18 x 18 21 cm), this partly red velvet lined mahagony box is complete filled with 14 labelled original bottles of different sizes; they all fit perfectly into the box! All free blown glass stoppered bottles are obviously original, most stoppers are stuck now, most bottles still filled; the 14 bottles have different labels: “F. Slater 55, Darlington Street, Wigan” (10), “F. A. Emery Read More...
Comments Off on ~CASED LARGE FORMAT MAGIC LANTERN/SOLAR/PROJECTION MICROSCOPE OBJECT LENSES~
Cased, all bright brass, unsigned, large format magic lantern /solar or projection microscope object lenses. One light reducing with a wheel of stops, the other for wooden or glass sliders up to 2 1/2″ in width. Fully functional with clear, undamaged lenses in both. Thread to magic lantern/solar mirror plate is 3 1/4″ in diameter. Ebonized pine box with two hooks. Bulbous lens with wheel of stops is 3 1/2″ long, the slider lens/adapter is 4 1/2″ long. Box Read More...
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An important and unusual nine inch bronze sundial by Joseph Sindle for a specific location within the grounds of Tottenham House (Savernacke Forest-Tottenham Park) latitude 51 degrees, 32 minutes and dated 1829. Cast at a more northerly latitude (53 degrees?) and with gnomen purposely bent for this specific location within Tottenham Park, this sundial has some unusual world locations included on it’s face. i.e. Boston New England, Jerusalem, Babylon in Chaldea and Cape of Good Hope.
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CLARKS COMPUTER SURVEYORS SLIDE RULE/CALCULATOR
IN IVORINE (PLASTIC)
CLARKS ST PETERS CHURCH YARD CHESTER
PATENT No. 249784
9 CM DIAMETER
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
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A Waywiser by Cary London C 1800. Probably made by William Cary.
The 80 cm. diameter six spoke wheel with iron tyre, brass dial signed Cary London, inscribed and divided for measurements in yards, poles, miles and furlongs. The mahogany fork body with shaped top and bar handles are connected to a clock-like movement, which in turn is driven by an iron shaft running up the inside of one of the wheel supports. Total length of 130 cm high. In Read More...
Dental Achimede Drill, steel, early 20th Century, English, swiwelling gear head, signature “Down England”, length (without drill bit) 18,5 cm (7 1/4″), good condition, drill bit is not original, perfect working order.,
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Well preserved early 19th Centruy dry card ship’s compass in wooden bowl of buxwood with wooden lid. On the rose with 32 points, with the name of the maker in the center, “D. Stalker – Leith” ( situated by Edinburgh, Scotland). North with beautiful fleur de lis as well. The inside of the compass is painted white and the glass is fixed with original putty. Diameter 11cm and in perfect condition.
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A set of 144 oval spectacle lens in pairs in good condition, with strength marked with small paper labels. Original pine box very distressed with detached lid.
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