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A 19th-Century oxidised and lacquered-brass transit theodolite,
signed on the silvered compass dial J.B. DANCER Manchester, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, ray shade and dust slide, mounted with a graduated bubble level, the axis with 6-inch vertical circle, the silvered scale divided in four quadrants, with twin verniers and magnifiers, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, raised on twin V-supports, with additional bubble level, the horizontal plate with cross bubble, compass box with edge-bar needle, the horizontal chamfered silvered scale with twin verniers, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, on four-screw tripod attachment -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high
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signed on the silvered compass dial J.B. DANCER Manchester, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, ray shade and dust slide, mounted with a graduated bubble level, the axis with 6-inch vertical circle, the silvered scale divided in four quadrants, with twin verniers and magnifiers, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, raised on twin V-supports, with additional bubble level, the horizontal plate with cross bubble, compass box with edge-bar needle, the horizontal chamfered silvered scale with twin verniers, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, on four-screw tripod attachment -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high
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