Drawing Compass
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This 18th-century brass drawing instrument appears to be mostly handcrafted. The needle point is relatively broad, and the pen point is shaped like a spade. Both legs are decorated with four horizontal lines, and the leg with the needle point is engraved with a horseshoe. Both sides of both legs have an apparently intentional gouge shaped like a triangle. The joint is round with a ridge around the bottom.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Sotheby & Company, Catalogue of a Collection of Scientific Instruments, the Property of the Late Henry Russel Wray, London, 1959 (a copy of the catalogue is in the accession file).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316928
label: accession number
content: 219305
label: catalog number
content: 316928
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing
label: Object Name
content: drawing compass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 1.1 cm x .8 cm; 4 1/32 in x 7/16 in x 5/16 in