Dry Card Compass
date: label: date made
content: 1813-1822
name: label: maker
content: Thaxter, Samuel
notes: label: Description
content: Dry-card nautical compass with a turned wooden bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. The "S. THAXTER MAKER No 27 STATE STREET BOSTON" inscription indicates a date between 1813 when Samuel Thaxter moved to No. 27 State Street, and 1822 when the firm became S. Thaxter & Son. The donor believed it had belonged to his distant ancestor, Simon Mellon, and was used in a whaling vessel in the Bering Sea.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Curtis G. Mellen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0014.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0014
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0014.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thaxter Dry Card Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 5 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 19.05 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: compass bowl: 4 3/4 in; 12.065 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 3/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 19.3675 cm x 18.7325 cm