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Dry Card Compass - click to enlarge

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Dry Card Compass

Catalogue number:
1992.0202.01

Inscriptions:
"R. S. BURROUGH." PROVIDENCE ""

Dimensions:
compass diameter 8 inches; box 10.25 inches square

Discussion:
This compass has a turned wooden bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. It dates from around 1817 when Robert S. Burrough was in Providence, Rhode Island, selling and repairing nautical and other mathematical instruments.

Ref: Burrough’s advertisement in the New American Practical Navigator (1817).

Further Information:

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