Accession No

3740

Brief Description

protractor, English, 17th century

Origin

England

Maker

Class

drawing

Earliest Date

1600

Latest Date

1700

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass)

Dimensions

length 107mm; breadth 85mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA, 1990.

Inscription

Description Notes

Unsigned brass protractor with angle and linear scales. Curved edge divided 0-180˚ by 10˚ to 30’ clockwise; 0-180˚ by 10˚ anticlockwise. Index hole on diameter. Straight edge divided 0-104 by 10 to 1. Three other scales above this, labelled ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’.

Condition fair; complete.

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