Dry Card Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1811
name: label: maker
content: Blunt, Edmund March
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has a wooden bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. The inscription on the paper card reads "EDM. M. BLUNT. CHART, SELLER, N° 202 WATERSTREET, NEW YORK." The signature is that of Edmund March Blunt (1770-1862), a dealer of nautical supplies who moved from Massachusetts to New York City in 1811 and who retired in the mid-1820s. In the center of the card is an image of a robed figure on land leaning on an anchor and gazing at a ship at sea.
label: Description
content: This compass is said to have been on the Niagara on September 10, 1813 when, under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry, American sailors defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert C. Bichan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0020.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0020
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0020.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dry card compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 15 13/16 in x 26 in x 26 3/16 in; 40.132 cm x 66.04 cm x 66.548 cm
label: Measurements
content: compass: 7 in; 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 10 5/16 in x 10 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 26.19375 cm x 26.035 cm