Nautic Telescope Brass and Mahogany London 19th Century - Smith Royal Exchange London

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Brass geodesy graphometer, signed "Stanley London", with compass whose bottom is engraved with a compass rose indicating the 4 cardinal points and a broken bubble level. It has an inverted double diopter, as a goal for the fixed reference point, in the lower part. Another movable diopter with reading nonius in the fixed goniometer, the latter having a scale from 0 to 180° and from 180° to 0, indicated from 10° to 10°, semi-circular shape. Contained in a walnut box.

Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjustment screw, three colored filters for the fixed mirror and three for the mobile one, aiming telescope.

"Franciscu"

Gilded brass leveling square signed "Franciscu".

19th Century / 1801 - 1900, 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Gilded brass monocular with extensible bosy; the end is enamelled and decorated with gilded phitomorphic gyrals.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900, 17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Brass and steel iron scale with spring system; it comes with 3 sets of cup weights; one consisting of six elements, two with houses (the outermost weight in the form of a case with a lid) and with six and five weights respectively. The latter, which is older than the rest of the lot and dates back to the 17th century, is stamped with a chalice on the outer part, while each of the inner weights has a triangle within which a six-pointed star is inscribed.

Hamburg 1837 - 1862

Sextant "D. Filby Hamburg" in ebonized wood, brass and bone, vernier with adjustment screw, three colored filters for the fixed mirror and four for the mobile one, sighting telescope with optics. Contained in a wooden box in mahogany.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Telescope diopter made of brass, composed of a movable graduated ruler, small compass with wind rose on the base, distance collimator telescope, vertical graduated circle and spirit level placed on the top of the telescope.

Italy, Early XX Century

Early 20th century brass telescope diopter. Alidade composed of a flat rod, called rule, at the ends of which two pinnulae rise hinged; equipped with metric scale, compass, spirit level and distance metric collimator telescope.

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Brass alidade for a praetorian tablet, consisting of a flat rod, called a ruler, at the ends of which two pinnules with a pin for locking are hinged. Contained in an original leather and suede case on the inside.

“Richer à Paris” 1806

Gilded brass semi-circular protractor signed and dated "Richer à Paris/1806" that refears to Jean-Francois Richer.

"Canivet a Paris"

Level and square set with golden brass wire, signed “Canivet a Paris”. On the instrument there are also the inscriptions “6 p de France / Nelle Mesure”.

"Butterfield a Paris"

Leveller set square with plumb line, in gilded brass, signed “Butterfield a Paris”; there also is the inscription "pouces de Roy". Michael Butterfield (1635-1724) was an English watchmaker who moved to Paris around 1663, where he worked at the royal court and was appointed engineer by Louis XIV. He opened a shop of precision instruments, and specialized, in particular, in the production of sundials. Among his main customers is the Tsar Peter the Great, who also visited the workshop in 1717.