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

Pocket case of silver mathematical instruments

1728-1733

Cased set of varnished card drawing scales by Holtzapffel & Co.

1839-1900

Rectangular protractor and plotting scale

1825-1830

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

One of three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

Ivory plotting scale of type known as single scale

Proportional plotting scale with cursor

Plotting scale

1851-1900

Boxwood scale

1800-1860

Lockie's Improved Drawing Scales

Brass scale and protractor by Pistor and Martins

1860-1900

Three foot scale

Set of six boxwood drawing scales with offsets, in fitted case, by Stanley, Great Turnstile, London (B4349, A180468).

Set of six boxwood drawing scales with offsets

Three sets of cardboard drawing scales, all 1 by 12 inches, cardboard scales to the foot:- Lockie's Improved Drawing scales (No 4 damaged), Eyre & Spottiswoode's Draughtsman's set (incomplete), Eyre & Spottiswoode's Surveyor's set (incomplete)

Three sets of cardboard drawing scales

20th century

Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil, engraved "From John Francis Erskine of Mar Esquire, to Robert Bald Esquire 1800", in case

Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil

Three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott, in German silver

Three 12 inch scales of equal parts by Elliott

Plotting scale, 12"; brass; 17th century, diagonal scale and scales of equal parts and chords

Plotting scale

Two line-dividing boxwood scales 6 inches and 24 inches; made by Stanley, Great Turnstile, London

Two line-dividing boxwood scales 6 inches and 24 inches

1870-1885

Selection of 26 plotting scales, some broken and incomplete, previously mounted on display board by W.F. Stanley, Great Turnstile London.

Selection of 26 plotting scales

1876