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Dry Card Compass - click to enlarge

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Dry Card Compass

Catalogue number:
TR*336924

Inscriptions:
"MICHAEL RUPP & CO., NEW YORK"

Dimensions:
diameter 6.5 inches

Discussion:
This has a brass bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box, and dates from the second half of the nineteenth century.

Further Information:

Rupp
Compass

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