A lacquered-brass plane-table compass,
A lacquered-brass plane-table compass,

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A lacquered-brass plane-table compass,
signed on the silvered dial F.W. Breithaupt & Sohn Cassel, with finely engraved compass circle, the base plate engraved 1408, in fitted mahogany case -- 9in. (24.8cm.) wide; a telescopic inclinometer, signed L. Casella Maker to the Admiralty & Ordnance LONDON No. 187, with silvered dial, three-draw telescope with lens cap -- 5in. (14cm.) long (telescope closed); and a lacquered-brass camera lucida, signed Mson BARABAN Parent succ. 175. rue St Honore. Paris, in plush-lined leatherette-covered case -- 10in. (27.3cm.) wide

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