Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2248Location: BoltonDate / Time: September 11, 2004 12:00PM
Description:
Mahogany Surveyor's Compass by Newell, King Street, Boston, with printed card signed Callender, fleur-de-lis to North, brass compass ring, blued-steel needle, and two sighting vanes, wd. 14 in.
Note: Joseph Callender served as apprentice to Paul Revere, and subsequently became a die-sinker at the Massachusetts mint.
Estimate $2,000-3,000