JACOB LUSUERG/JOSEPH MACCARIUS, Rome

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JACOB LUSUERG/JOSEPH MACCARIUS, Rome
A part-set of brass drawing instruments, comprising a sector signed and dated Joseph Maccarius Romanus Fecit Par ma 1708, engraved with various scales, a divider signed and dated Iacobus Lusuerg Fa Roma A 1676, two further dividers, a wheel pen, and a double-headed ruling pen, in a chamois and silk-lined, brown leather-covered case with gilt-tooling including dividers -- 10¾in.(27cm.)wide

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Literature

Daumas, Maurice, Scientific Instruments of the 17th and 18th Centuries and their Makers, p.66-67.

Lot Essay

Joseph Maccarius may have been the son of Joannes Maccarius who worked in Modena at the same time as Lusuerg. Lusuerg appears to have been working in Rome from at least 1673.

This set may have been made by Luserg and the sector was replaced with one by Maccarius.

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