Lot 30
30
A BRASS PARALLEL RULE WITH PROTRACTOR
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERIC MARTIN WUNSCH
A BRASS PARALLEL RULE WITH PROTRACTOR

RETAILED BY PIKE & SON, NEW YORK, 1831-1850

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A BRASS PARALLEL RULE WITH PROTRACTOR
RETAILED BY PIKE & SON, NEW YORK, 1831-1850
engraved on transit Pike & Son NEW YORK
4¼ in. high, 12¼ in. long

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Lot Essay

Bearing the retailer's name of "Pike & Son," this instrument was either made between 1831 and 1841, when Benjamin Pike, Sr. (1777-1863) was in partnership with his son Benjamin, Jr. (1809-1864), or between 1843 and 1850, when the elder Pike was in partnership with his son Daniel. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the company was the country's leading retailer of scientific and mathematical instruments.

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