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thirteen various wood and ivory rules and measures
a 19th-Century 15½in. ebony rolling rule signed J. DAVIS DERBY, with ivory scales and and graduated sections on the rollers, with protractor graduations; a 19th-Century boxwood four-sided 12in. customs slide rule, signed DRING & FAGE MAKERS NO20 TOOLEY ST LONDON BRIDGE ; a 19th-Century boxwood 45in. rule stamped DRING & FAGE LONDON MAKERS TO THE CUSTOMS with brass stop at one end, two scales on each face and a sliding central rod with two corresponding scales on each face and brass stop; a 19th-Century boxwood trigonometry rule, unsigned; a brass and ivory 2x6in. sector, signed SHEPHERD & SUTTON LONDON; another similar, unsigned; a brass and boxwood 24in. folding rule, with scratched-out signature and No405 , in four sections; another similar but narrower, with scratched-out signature; another similar, with chamfered scale rule sections, signed J. RABONE & SONS BIRMINGHAM No1118 and further stamped QUIGGIN BROS LTD LIVERPOOL TEL. ROYAL 1665-6; a brass and boxwood customs slide rule stamped CHAS GROVES MAKER WALTHAMSTOW and A. TOYE -- 48.2cm. (19in.) long; a brass and ebony parallel rule, stamped *SMITH & WARNER 211 PICCADILLY* -- 22.9cm. (9in.) long; a brass and ivory caliper stamped UNDERHILL OLD MILLGATE MANCHESTER -- 8.8cm. (3½in.) long; and an early 20th-Century brass and boxwood caliper signed RABONE -- 11.5cm. (4½in.) long (13)
a 19th-Century 15½in. ebony rolling rule signed J. DAVIS DERBY, with ivory scales and and graduated sections on the rollers, with protractor graduations; a 19th-Century boxwood four-sided 12in. customs slide rule, signed DRING & FAGE MAKERS N
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