Simple Brass Theodolite Brass Glass Italy 18th Century

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

“Richer à Paris” 1806

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

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.

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.

“F. W. Morgan Optician Manchester”

Brass microscope signed on de base "F.W. Morgan Optical Manchester".

J. H. Steward 406 Strand London

Brass laboratory microscope, J. H. Steward, 406 Strand London. The mahogany box containing it has an empty slot and signs of a possible attack on the inside of the lid. The inscription "St. Paul's Churchyard" (active location between c.1867 and 1930) on a component found in the wooden box and the characteristics of the instrument allow us to date it with good probability to the last quarter of the 19th century.

Italy, first half of the twentieth century

Scandalli 96 Bass Accordion. Contemporary case.

Paolo Soprani accordion, 120 bass in bakelite with a decor which imitates the mother-of-pearl.

"Franciscu"

Gilded brass leveling square signed "Franciscu".

"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.