Bow Compass with Pencil Point Sold by Keuffel & Esser
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This tarnished German silver bow pencil has a ring connecting the instrument to its ridged cylindrical handle. It is marked: KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. (/) GERMANY. The disc adjusting the instrument's width is between the legs. Thumbscrews on the back of one leg and the front of the other permit adjustments to the height of the pencil and pricker points. The instrument has no pencil lead.
label: Description
content: The instrument does not appear in K&E's 1892 or 1909 catalogs. K&E sold a similar bow compass from at least 1921 to at least 1936, but that instrument was made in the United States and had bolts in each leg at the ends of the bow screw. Therefore, this object may have been imported before 1892.
label: Description
content: References: <i>Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 36th ed. (New York, 1921), 92s; <i>Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 38th ed. (New York, 1936), 141.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Dividers and Compasses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert B. Condon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0793.02
label: accession number
content: 1991.0793
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0793.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow pencil
label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 3.4 cm x 1.4 cm; 5 1/2 in x 1 11/32 in x 9/16 in