Tell-Tale Compass
date: label: date made
content: 1793
name: label: maker
content: Witteveen, Sybrand
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has a turned wooden bowl and card that can be seen from above and below. The inscriptions read "SYBRAND WITTEVEEN in Amsterdam" and "1793 SW." Sybrand Witteveen was born around 1769 in the Dutch province of Friesland, married in Amsterdam in 1794, and died sometime after 1813.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sybrich ter Kuile and W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, "<i>Amsterdamse kompasmakers ca. 1580 - ca. 1850. Bijdrage tot de kennis van de instrumentmakerij in Nederland</i> (Amsterdam, 1999), p. 109.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: North Holland, Amsterdam
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326474
label: catalog number
content: 326474
label: accession number
content: 260031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nautical Compass (Tell-Tale)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 19.685 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 9 in; 11.43 cm x 22.86 cm