#pocket compass

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▪︎ Pocket compass and sundial.

Artist/Maker: Michael Butterfield (1635-1724)

Place of origin: Paris, France and England

Date: early 18th century

Medium: Engraved silver, engraved brass

[ltwilliammowett]

Ivory pocket compass, Germany, 17th- 18th century

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[ltwilliammowett]

Compass dial for latitude 49° North. This brass dial is set over a compass in an ivory box, 17th century

[ltwilliammowett]

Compass and sundial for latitude 48° 30' North, by Rousseau, 1750-1800

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Pocket Magnetic Compass, early 19th century

This compass was used by Lieutenant Nathaniel Haraden in the early 1800s while serving as the Sailing Master aboard the frigate USS Constitution. He was serving aboard the Constitution during the 1804 battle with the Tripoli pirates in the Mediterranean. Progressing to the rank of Lieutenant in 1807 and then to Master Commandant in 1816, he assisted Commodore Tingey with the rebuilding of the Washington Navy Yard after the burning of Washington in 1814.

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Gilt brass pocket compass, by W&S Jones, England c. 1825

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Horizontal compass sundial for latitude for 42 degrees, signed "Asling & Bird, London", in watch type case. English, c.1840