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A black-enamelled brass transit theodolite,
engraved on the horizontal plate J.W. and S. B.O.W., and signed T. COOKE AND SONS YORK, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, dust cap, four-screw cross-wire adjusters and mounted with a trough compass, the axis with 6-inch vertical circle, the silvered scale divided in four quadrants, with twin verniers and bubble level, tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, the support incorporating a lamp and balance weight, raised over the horizontal plate with bubble level and cross-bubble, the enclosed chamfered silvered scale with three verniers, on three-screw tripod attachment, with accessories, in the original mahogany carrying case, with trade labels for G. HUTCHISON AND SONS 18 FOREST ROAD EDINBURGH and W. AND S. STANLEY -- 15in. (38cm.) wide
See Colour Plate 2
engraved on the horizontal plate J.W. and S. B.O.W., and signed T. COOKE AND SONS YORK, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, dust cap, four-screw cross-wire adjusters and mounted with a trough compass, the axis with 6-inch vertical circle, the silvered scale divided in four quadrants, with twin verniers and bubble level, tangent screw fine adjustment and clamp, the support incorporating a lamp and balance weight, raised over the horizontal plate with bubble level and cross-bubble, the enclosed chamfered silvered scale with three verniers, on three-screw tripod attachment, with accessories, in the original mahogany carrying case, with trade labels for G. HUTCHISON AND SONS 18 FOREST ROAD EDINBURGH and W. AND S. STANLEY -- 15in. (38cm.) wide
See Colour Plate 2