Pencil Holder for Drawing Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This brass leg for a drawing compass has a screw for adjusting the width of the pencil lead holder. A joint at the top bends to a right angle. At the turn of the 20th century, brass drawing instruments were made for school use, while engineers and draftsmen used instruments made from German silver and steel. This object may have originally been part of a wooden case of drawing instruments. It resembles but is not identical to the pencil point in a case sold for $5.00 by Keuffel & Esser in 1892 and compasses sold for 60¢ by W. & L. E. Gurley in 1903 and 1906.
label: Description
content: References: <i>Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 23rd ed. (New York, 1892), 95; <i>A Manual of the Principal Instruments . . . Manufactured by W. & L. E. Gurley</i>, 37th ed. (Troy, N.Y., 1903), 322–323; <i>A Manual of the Principal Instruments . . . Manufactured by W. & L. E. Gurley</i>, 39th ed. (Troy, N.Y., 1906), 322–323.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Dividers and Compasses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335336
label: accession number
content: 305958
label: catalog number
content: 335336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pencil holder
label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing (partial)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.9 cm x 1 cm x .9 cm; 3 1/8 in x 13/32 in x 11/32 in