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A good late 19th/early 20th-Century oxidised-brass theodolite,
by Potter, Poultry, London., the 9-inch long telescope stamped B 201, with lens cap, bubble level, rack and pinion focusing and cross-hair adjustment screws, mounted on a cradle over a vertical half-circle with silvered scale and vernier, on two A-frame supports, one stamped HO 201 with War Department arrow, with fine-screw adjustment and clamp and swinging magnifier for vernier and bubble level, over the 5½-inch horizontal circle with twin bubble levels and glazed compass with edgebar needle and clamp, the chamfered circumference with silvered scale, vernier and magnifier, fine-screw adjustment and clamp, raised on a four-screw tripod mounting with fine-screw adjustment and clamp, with eyepiece extension tube, eyepiece, plumb bob and one tool, in a fitted mahogany carrying case with brass carrying handles and painted ADMIRALTY. H.O. 201 with arrow -- 30.2cm. (11 7/8in.) wide
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by Potter, Poultry, London., the 9-inch long telescope stamped B 201, with lens cap, bubble level, rack and pinion focusing and cross-hair adjustment screws, mounted on a cradle over a vertical half-circle with silvered scale and vernier, on two A-frame supports, one stamped HO 201 with War Department arrow, with fine-screw adjustment and clamp and swinging magnifier for vernier and bubble level, over the 5½-inch horizontal circle with twin bubble levels and glazed compass with edgebar needle and clamp, the chamfered circumference with silvered scale, vernier and magnifier, fine-screw adjustment and clamp, raised on a four-screw tripod mounting with fine-screw adjustment and clamp, with eyepiece extension tube, eyepiece, plumb bob and one tool, in a fitted mahogany carrying case with brass carrying handles and painted ADMIRALTY. H.O. 201 with arrow -- 30.2cm. (11 7/8in.) wide
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