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Dry Card Compass
Catalogue number:
PH*314852
Inscriptions:
"ROBERT KING NEW YORK" and "S. THAXTER & SON. MAKERS.
State Street. BOSTON"
Dimensions:
bowl diameter 7 inches; box 10 inches square
Discussion:
This compass has a brass bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. The paper card
was made for Robert King (c.1789-1868), a mathematical instrument maker from
England who spent most of his career in New York City. The Thaxter signature is
on a paper disc laid over the center of the card, obscuring the King signature.
The instrument probably dates from the middle decades of the nineteenth century
and was used by Capt. Andrew McWha of St. Stephen, N.B., Canada.
Further Information:
King
Compass
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