Pen Point for Drawing Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This leg for a drawing compass has a brass top, which is jointed, and German silver pen points with an adjusting screw. Loosening the screw increases the width of the pen line to be drawn. At the turn of the 20th century, compasses frequently came with interchangeable legs, one for drawing with pencil lead and one for drawing with ink. The compass to which this pen point belonged may have been part of a set of drawing instruments. Due to its different shape and materials, it is probably not from the same compass as MA.335336.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Eunice L. Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335338
label: accession number
content: 305958
label: catalog number
content: 335338
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pen point
label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing (partial)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 1.1 cm x .6 cm; 3 17/32 in x 7/16 in x 1/4 in