Auction: Sale #2173 - 2173Location: BoltonDate / Time: October 27, 2002 10:00AM
Description:
Brass Surveyors Compass By Thomas Greenough, Boston, 18th century, with engraved compass rose with floral center, signed Thomas Greenough Boston Fecit, outer ring divided 0-90 x 4, blued-steel needle, numbered vanes (1 and 2),cover and butterfly screw for the mount, in carved-out field case with fruitwood Gunter's rule in lid, the instrument 11 3/4 in. long. (old repair with brass to the rule).
Estimate $3,000-4,000