A 19th-Century lacquered brass surveyor's compass, signed on the silvered dial W & L E Gurley Troy, N.Y., with finely engraved scales on blued-steel edge-bar needle on jewelled pivot with clamp, with rack and pinion vernier adjustment, level and cross-bubble, twin sights, covered plate and counter dial in makers original mahogany case with trade label - 13 3/8in. (34cm.) wide; and the associated tripod and levelling staff.

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A 19th-Century lacquered brass surveyor's compass, signed on the silvered dial W & L E Gurley Troy, N.Y., with finely engraved scales on blued-steel edge-bar needle on jewelled pivot with clamp, with rack and pinion vernier adjustment, level and cross-bubble, twin sights, covered plate and counter dial in makers original mahogany case with trade label - 13 3/8in. (34cm.) wide; and the associated tripod and levelling staff.
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