Drawing Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This German silver instrument has a handle and ridged ring at its top. Both legs have screws partway down and thumbscrews at the ends for adjusting the angles of the points. A piece of lead is in the receptacle at the end of one leg. The end of the other leg has a steel point. The instrument has no markings. Similar but shorter compasses from Germany are advertised for $2.15 in Keuffel & Esser's 1892 and 1909 catalogs. The instrument is not shown in the 1921 catalog.
label: Description
content: References: <i>Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 23rd ed. (New York, 1892), 61; <i>Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 33rd ed. (New York, 1909), 108.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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.335340
label: accession number
content: 305958
label: catalog number
content: 335340
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass
label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .7 cm x 10.5 cm x 1 cm; 9/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 13/32 in