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Admiralty steering compass demonstrating the laminated compass needles typical of the mid-19th century

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1850-1870

Mariner's compass

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c. 1775

Chinese mariner's compass with south ideograph marked in red

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1825-1875

Pattern no.25. Torpedo boat compass

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Mariner's compass

Asian Medicine

1830-1920

Brass mariner's compass in gimbals set in mahogany box

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1775-1850

Chetwynd liquid compass, pattern no.22, with mica

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1905-1912

Chinese mariner's compass

Asian Medicine

1830-1920

4" night compass on gimbals with Singers patented black and white marked card

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1861-1872

Boats compass H 97 numbered 67 inside lid. Card 2

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Submarine projector liquid compass, pattern no.27P

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1917-1924

Mariner's compass in gimbals

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1870-1875

Mariner's compass

Asian Medicine

1830-1920

Torpedo boat liquid compass on gimbals, pattern no. 24, with iridium pivot designed to reduce vibration in fast vessels. By E Dent & Company Limited, London, 1875-1885.

Torpedo boat liquid compass on gimbals, pattern no

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1875-1885

Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass with gimbals, plus binnacle and brass hood, by James White, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1876. The Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass with gimbals, plus binnacle and brass hood was presented in 1876 by Lord Kelvin, Sir William Thomson.

Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass with gimbals, plus binnacle and brass hood

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1876