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Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Marquois scales

drawing instrument sets; dividers (compass)

Set of drawing instruments in mahogany case

Semicircular protractor

Pair of compasses in case

Gunner's calliper in electrum and ivory

1816-1850

Boxwood Sector, 1680-1720

1680-1720

Twelve - inch scale in case, by "Donkin, London"

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

Brass, 12-inch Gunter scale by Henry Sutton

1652

Rectangular drawing instrument in brass

1865

Callipers (c. 1800)

1800

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

"Keith's Improv'd Scale"

Panmetron, "universal scale" for measurement and calculation invented by James Jordan

1823

Patent protractor in form of set square

1885-1895

Standard 6" diagonal scale in case; brass 6 7/8" x 3 7/16" screwed by 4 screws to mahogany base with a mahogany cover

Protractor with plummet clinometer

1876

Semi-circular protractor

Plotting scale

1876

Trigonometer serving as protractor and parallel rule

1902-1920

Brass protractor with two blades for setting out and measuring angles

1740-1749

Circular protractor

Protractor and scale

Circular protractor 7 7/8 inch

1751-1773

Combination dividers

1772-1795

Gauger's scale; boxwood; 2 foot

1808-1844

Drawing pen for red ink

1876

Lithographic drawing pen

1876

Protractor, silver 2 1/16 inches diameter

1740-1760

Steel drawing pen

1876

"Best" patent enlarging and reducing scale made by W.F.Stanley

Six inch protractor

Steel dividers by W and C Wynn

1787-1899

Gunter's scale, early example, boxwood, 2' long

Protractor scale

1876

Gunner's rule incorporating Brigadier Borgard's Scale for English Weight & Foot Measure

Equarrimetre, form of rectangular protractor with sliding cursor

1918-1922