Collector’s Compass

Collector’s Compass

Regular price £105.00 Sale

Its origin was from ancient China and considered as an instrument of magic. Taken to the West it introduced open-sea navigation. Sailing vessels no longer needed to hug the coast.This compass was originally created for the scientific instrument collection of King George IV. Its elegant design features gimbal-rings, which serve to keep the compass bowl horizontal. Hand-tooled in admiralty brass.

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