An 18th-Century brass circumferentor, signed on the silvered compass dial Whitfield London, the scale divided in four quadrants, the blued iron needle on pivot with agate cap, the rotating alidade, with two sights and single vernier, the horizontal circle with two sights, on staff mounting with screw clamp, in mahogany case - 8¼in. (21cm.) wide.

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An 18th-Century brass circumferentor, signed on the silvered compass dial Whitfield London, the scale divided in four quadrants, the blued iron needle on pivot with agate cap, the rotating alidade, with two sights and single vernier, the horizontal circle with two sights, on staff mounting with screw clamp, in mahogany case - 8¼in. (21cm.) wide.

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