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Ten various wooden rules and measures,
a brass and ebony parallel rule stmaped CAPT FIELD'S IMPROVED PARALLEL with protractor graduations -- 54.3cm. (21 3/8in.) long; a 19th-Century wood and brass vertical metre rule, unsigned, with iron foot for planting in the ground, inset brass beads on all faces for every centimetre, the two wide faces with diamond, circular and star-shaped insets engraved for every 10cm. and inset brass plaques at the top with 1cm. graduations for the final 20cm.; an unusual brass-tipped slightly curved 24in. boxwood rule, unsigned; a brass-tipped boxwood customs 40in. measure stamped DRING & FAGE LTD LONDON CUSTOMS & EXCISE 27.5.76 with an aluminium stop at the top -- 120.7cm. (47½in.) long; a boxwood 24in. Gunter's rule, unsigned; a 20th-Century wooden 3ft rule signed J. RABONE & SONS BIRMINGHAM no.1147, with a T-bar at the base; a 20th-century folding iron and wood 5ft rule signed RABONE no.1612, in five sections; a boxwood slide rule SCALE FOR WEIGHT OF MALLEABLE IRON PLATES & BARS, signed J. TREE LONDON -- 48.7cm. (19 1/8in.); a 19th-Century brass and boxwood 4ft folding "bung rod" customs rule stamped CLOCK MAKER LONDON, in two parts each of two sections, joined by a sprung catch; and a 19th-Century brass and boxwood cylindrical 5ft customs rule stamped MANDER MAKER 25 OLD CROMPTON STREET SOHO LONDON, in five threaded sections (15)
a brass and ebony parallel rule stmaped CAP
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