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A half hour sand-glass.
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Publisher: The Low Countries
Date: ca. 1790
Compass.
A very nicely crafted sloop compass in original box. The compass is gimbaled and is executed in beautiful red copper. Made and signed by F.J. Kloos & Son of Rotterdam...
Publisher: KLOOS, F.J.
Date: Rotterdam, 1850-1875
Compass.
A sloop compass in original box. The compass is gimbaled. The compass works fine.
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: c. 1890-1900
A two-day marine Chronometer, No. 8185.
The 4inch frosted dial signed Chronometerwerke, Wempe, Hamburg, and numbered 8185, upright black Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel ha...
Publisher: WEMPE CHRONOMETERWERKE
Date: Hamburg, 1968