Periode: 1850 - 1900

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Inventarisnummer: V10856

LIQUID COMPASS
Description
Circular brass bowl with a glass cover, suspended in gimbals. The bowl is painted white on the inside with a black lubber line, red on the outside and weighted by lead. The bowl could not be opened, but the card is probably made of celluloid and probably carries one heavy needle. In an octagonal mahogany box stamped ‘714’ in the box and the lid, in the lid twice ‘Dent’.

c. 1850
Origin: London, England
Maker: Frederick Dent
Signed on the rim of the glass cover: Registered Liquid F. Dent’s Compass. No 714. | 34 & 35, Royal Exchange & 61, Strand, London.
Marked on the gimbals: 714

Graduation: The printed card is divided by 64 points.
Dimensions:
Card D c. 16
Compass w 23 l 23 h 14
Box w 28 l 28 h 18

Provenance
Verificatie ’s Rijks Zee-instrumenten of the Royal Netherlands Navy. No. 37