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An unusual 19th-Century lacquered-brass surveying sight,
the drum-shaped body with silvered scale and two verniers, the sight with balance weight suspended from the end plate cover, with fore and aft viewing windows, with ebony handle, the lower cover embossed PATENTIRTES TASCHENINSTRUMENT ZUM NIVELLIREN UND WINKELNESSEN. PATENT BREVETÉ NO 950, contained in lacquered-brass tubular case -- 4¾in. (12cm.) long
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the drum-shaped body with silvered scale and two verniers, the sight with balance weight suspended from the end plate cover, with fore and aft viewing windows, with ebony handle, the lower cover embossed PATENTIRTES TASCHENINSTRUMENT ZUM NIVELLIREN UND WINKELNESSEN. PATENT BREVETÉ NO 950, contained in lacquered-brass tubular case -- 4¾in. (12cm.) long
See Illustration