A late 19th-Century oxidised brass transit, by EUGENE DIETZGEN CO CHICAGO & NEW YORK No. 2776, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing and graduated bubble level, the axis on twin supports incorporating fine vernier adjustment and bubble level, the horizontal plate with compass box and enclosed circle with 2 vernier windows and cross-bubble, tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, on 4 screw tripod mounting, in mahogany carrying case - 15½in. (39.4cm.) high.