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An early 20th-Century American oxidised-brass theodolite,
signed on the compass face EUGENE DIETZGEN C.O. CHICAGO & NEW YORK 3795, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing and bubble level below, the objective lens with separate shade, the wheel graduated in degrees in four quadrants to read off the graduated index 34°-0-34° and 26°-0-26°, the axis on two A-frame supports over the horizontal plate with glazed compass with edge-bar needle, the plate with two bubble levels and an aperture to read the graduated index around the circumference, with screw clamp, on four screw adjustment feet with tripod mounting, in the original mahogany carrying case -- 14½in. (36.9cm.) high; with the original mahogany and brass tripod
signed on the compass face EUGENE DIETZGEN C.O. CHICAGO & NEW YORK 3795, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing and bubble level below, the objective lens with separate shade, the wheel graduated in degrees in four quadrants to read off the graduated index 34°-0-34° and 26°-0-26°, the axis on two A-frame supports over the horizontal plate with glazed compass with edge-bar needle, the plate with two bubble levels and an aperture to read the graduated index around the circumference, with screw clamp, on four screw adjustment feet with tripod mounting, in the original mahogany carrying case -- 14½in. (36.9cm.) high; with the original mahogany and brass tripod
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