Compass Card
name: label: maker
content: Thaxter, Samuel
notes: label: Description
content: This compass card reads counterclockwise, and so was meant for use with a tell-tale compass. The “Thaxter / Maker / State Street / Boston" inscription is probably that of Samuel Thaxter (1769-1842), a nautical apparatus maker and dealer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0148.02
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0148.02
label: accession number
content: 2002.0148
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Compass Card, Tell-Tale
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 5 in; 1.27 cm x 12.7 cm