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A good 20th-Century grey-enamelled transit theodolite,
stamped STANLEY, LONDON 113353 PATENT, the 23cm. long telescope with dust-cap/ray-shade with sliding cover and rack and pinion focusing to the eyepiece, the vertical circle with extremely finely-graduated silvered scale, bubble level, twin magnifiers each with micrometer fine adjustment, and double micrometer screw adjustment for the whole circle, held on two uprights over the horizontal circle with enclosed silvered scale and twin magnifiers with micrometer adjustment, bubble level, tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, on a tripod mounting incorporating three adjustable screw feet, in the original fitted mahogany carrying case with trough compass, spare eyepiece and plumb bob, the lid with two Stanley labels, the adjustment label dated 26.1.50, with an outer leather protective case stamped G.A. DODD, remains of a strap, and a length of ribbon with a repeated scroll motif bearing the name STEWARD -- 45.2cm. (17¾in.) wide; a grey-enamelled sighting level stamped 102100 STANLEY, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, LONDON, the telescope with objective lens dust-cap/ray-shade with sliding cover, rack and pinion focusing to the eyepiece and two bubble levels, on a half ball and socket mounting with tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, over a tripod mounting incorporating three adjustable screw feet, in the original fitted mahogany case with fruitwood-handled screw driver and three Stanley labels, the original dated for 1912, the two adjustment labels dated for 1942 and 1959 -- 37.5cm. (14¾in.) wide; with a telescopic mahogany tripod stamped 27201, one aluminium and one mahogany 14-foot telescopic measures and four surveyor's sighting poles painted with red, back and cream bands with metal spikes at the base (9)
stamped STANLEY, LONDON 113353 PATENT, the 23cm. long telescope with dust-cap/ray-shade with sliding cover and rack and pinion focusing to the eyepiece, the vertical circle with extremely finely-graduated silvered scale, bubble level, twin magnifiers each with micrometer fine adjustment, and double micrometer screw adjustment for the whole circle, held on two uprights over the horizontal circle with enclosed silvered scale and twin magnifiers with micrometer adjustment, bubble level, tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, on a tripod mounting incorporating three adjustable screw feet, in the original fitted mahogany carrying case with trough compass, spare eyepiece and plumb bob, the lid with two Stanley labels, the adjustment label dated 26.1.50, with an outer leather protective case stamped G.A. DODD, remains of a strap, and a length of ribbon with a repeated scroll motif bearing the name STEWARD -- 45.2cm. (17¾in.) wide; a grey-enamelled sighting level stamped 102100 STANLEY, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, LONDON, the telescope with objective lens dust-cap/ray-shade with sliding cover, rack and pinion focusing to the eyepiece and two bubble levels, on a half ball and socket mounting with tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, over a tripod mounting incorporating three adjustable screw feet, in the original fitted mahogany case with fruitwood-handled screw driver and three Stanley labels, the original dated for 1912, the two adjustment labels dated for 1942 and 1959 -- 37.5cm. (14¾in.) wide; with a telescopic mahogany tripod stamped 27201, one aluminium and one mahogany 14-foot telescopic measures and four surveyor's sighting poles painted with red, back and cream bands with metal spikes at the base (9)
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