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Keuffel & Esser Co. Surveyor's Transit
Located in Savannah, GA
A 1912 Keuffel & Esser Co. railroad surveyor's transit. Includes outfitted mahogany case. All
Category

1910s American Industrial Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass, Steel

Early 20th Century English Telescoping Surveyors Measure
Located in Burton, TX
Telescoping surveyors measuring staff made of wood with brass fittings. Marked 'Houghton-Butcher
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Early 20th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Early 20th Century English Telescoping Surveyors Measure
Located in Burton, TX
Telescoping surveyors measuring staff made of wood with brass fittings. Marked 'Houghton-Butcher
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Early 20th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Brass Surveyors Level by Troughton & Simms, London
By Troughton & Simms London
Located in Norwich, GB
Brass Surveyors Level by Troughton & Simms, London Sixteen inch extending telescope with
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Oxidised Surveyors Level by Reid and Young
Located in Norwich, GB
Oxidised surveyors level by Reid and Young Mounted on a circular base with threaded aperture or
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1920s British Edwardian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Early 19th century brass surveyor's level with compass
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century brass surveyor's level with telescope, compass and spirit level. With
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Early 19th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Antique Brass Scottish Surveyor's Compass in Fitted Wooden Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique surveyor's compass originates from Scotland and dates to approximately 1880 and made
Category

Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Metal, Brass

Antique Surveyor's Level, English, Brass, Scientific Instrument, Halden & Sons
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique surveyor's level. An English, brass scientific instrument by J. Halden & Sons of
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Early 20th Century British Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

1900s Brass Bakelite Magnetic Topographer Compass Surveyor Measurement Instrumen
Located in Milan, IT
Magnetic topographer compass from the early 1900s, brass and bakelite base; instrument consisting of a magnetized needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane, marking with its tip th...
Category

Early 1900s European Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

UK 1870 Brass Topographic Level, Antique Surveyor Measurement Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Telescope topographic level of brass, it is an instrument consisting of a telescope fixed parallel to the level, three-spoke base with adjustment screws. English manufacture from the...
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1860s British Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Charting the West: Surveyor General Roe’s Western Australian Expedition , 1852
Located in Langweer, NL
expedition under Surveyor General Roe from Perth to Russell Range during 1848 and 1849. The 1848-1849
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1850s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

1920s Carl Zeiss Brass Antique Theodolite Surveyor's Measurement Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Theodolite by Carl Zeiss Jena D.R.G.M. 1920s, light gray and black painted brass, internal horizontal and vertical circle with microscope readings, rack and pinion focusing. Very goo...
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1920s German Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Vintage Travelling Surveyor's Set, English, Pocket Drawing Instrument Case, 1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage travelling surveyor's set. An English, pocket drawing instrument case, dating to
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Early 20th Century British Antique Surveyor

Materials

Nickel

Antique Vineyard Setter's Compass, French, Brass, Surveyor's Instrument, C.1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique vineyard setter's compass. A French, brass surveyor's instrument with mahogany
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Late 19th Century French Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Antique Cartographer's Instrument Set, English, Surveyor's Tool Case, circa 1920
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique cartographer's instrument set. An English, silver nickel surveyor's tool case
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Early 20th Century British Antique Surveyor

Materials

Nickel

Expandable Surveyor's Poles/Logging Measuring Stick c.1940-Price Per Piece
Located in San Francisco, CA
surveyor's poles and one logging measuring stick. The large metal and wood white surveyor's pole telescopes
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Surveyor

Materials

Metal, Brass

English or French Antique Brass Surveyor's Transit Theodolite, last quarter 19th
Located in Atlanta, GA
From Wikipedia: “A THEODOLITE is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes. The traditional use ha...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

1916s Pocket Magnetic Compass for the Raf Officers Antique Surveyor Measurement
Located in Milan, IT
Pocket compass for the RAF officers, signed F. Darton & Co London V n. 77824 1916 made of brass chrome in the shape of a pocket watch. The compass has a snap-on cover with release bu...
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1910s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

1870 Antique Burnished Brass W F Stanley Level Surveyor Measurement Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Topographic level signed W.F Stanley of burnished brass, from the second half of the 19th century. In excellent condition and complete with original mahogany box with brass hinges an...
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1870s British Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Surveyor's Level or Theodolite by W.F. Stanley, London, in Original Fitted Box
By W. F. Stanley
Located in Austin, TX
A fine working English surveyor's theodolite or transit instrument (aka a dumpy level or surveyors
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Early 20th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Metal, Brass

Antique Keuffel & Esser Co 141547 Surveyors Compass in Case w Wooden Tripod Base
By Keuffel and Esser Co. 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Keuffel & Esser Co 141547 Surveyors Compass in Case with Adjustable Wooden Tripod Base
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Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Metal

Italian Brass Land-Surveyor Instrument Made in 1860 with its Original Walnut Box
Located in Milan, IT
Land-surveyor squaring, measuring instrument made of brass, Italian manufacture, from the second
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1860s Italian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

The First Map of Oxford engraving by William Williams after Ralph Agas
Located in London, GB
was an English surveyor and cartographer. He was born in Suffolk and lived there throughout his life
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1730s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Engraving

Jean Baptiste Van Lerberghe Theodolite - Circa 1700 to 1720
Located in Placerville, CA
what this Jean Baptiste Van Lerberghe did for living. I suspect he might have been a surveyor and made
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Early 18th Century French Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Rare Old Map of the City of Stavoren, Friesland, the Netherlands, 1616
Located in Langweer, NL
(1585-1656), Dutch cartographer and surveyor.
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1610s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Original Old & Rare View of the City of Workum, Friesland, The Netherlands, 1616
Located in Langweer, NL
. Artists and engravers: Nicolaes van Geelkercken (1585-1656), Dutch cartographer and surveyor.
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1610s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Danish 19th Century Brass Surveying or Level Tool on Tripod
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Surveyors tripod level tool from the late 19th century. The tripod is made of wood and the level is
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Mid-19th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Railway Map of India.
Located in London, GB
. Thuillier, R.E., Surveyor General of India, October 1890. A comprehensive railway map of British India
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1890s Other Art Style Antique Surveyor

Materials

Lithograph

Railway Map of India.
Railway Map of India.
H 50.79 in W 61.03 in D 1.58 in
Lovely Late 19th Century English Cabinet / Server by Hampton & Sons
Located in New York, NY
surveyors, estate agents, ‘antique and modern furniture dealers’, general furnishers, upholsterers, plumbers
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Late 19th Century English Belle Époque Antique Surveyor

Materials

Bronze

Regency Period Gentlman Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
excellent condition. The subject of the painting portrays a distinguished gentleman, possibly a surveyor
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Surveyor

Materials

Canvas

Regency Period Gentlman Painting
Regency Period Gentlman Painting
H 34.26 in W 27.96 in D 2.37 in
20th Century English Theodolite by W.F. Stanley London in Original Wooden Box
By W. F. Stanley
Located in Sofia, BG
20th century English surveyor's theodolite or transit instrument of brass by W.F. Stanley (Optical
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Early 20th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Langlois Graphometer - Circa 1730
Located in Placerville, CA
early instruments in my opinion. In theory a surveyor could read angles to six minutes of a degree with
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Early 18th Century French Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Tiffany & Co. Edwardian Diamond Crescent Brooch
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
-many made by passionate amateur scientists as diverse as surveyors and Anglican clergy - helped them
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Early 20th Century American Edwardian Antique Surveyor

Materials

Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, Platinum

VeryRare Antique Map of Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands, by P. Bast, 1603
By P. Bast
Located in Langweer, NL
. With a legend and compass rose at bottom right. Made by 'Pieter Bast' after the surveyor Johan Sems
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Early 17th Century Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

1856 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
surveyor. Bache served as the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1843 to 1865. Born in
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1850s American Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Young Woman Portrait by Enrico Crespi Signed Located Dated Italian Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
of Milan's cathedral square and simultaneously attending the school for surveyors and some
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1920s Italian Art Deco Antique Surveyor

Materials

Wood, Paper

1840 Map of the City of Washington Published by William M. Morrison
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
since changed. The map was published by William M. Morrison, drawn by F. C. De Kraft, the City Surveyor
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1840s American Federal Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Pantheum Moonlight, Early 20th century surrealist landscape, Cleveland School
By Ferdinand Burgdorff
Located in Beachwood, OH
, accompanied surveyors on many trips into the desert. Of this time he wrote: "There were such exciting things
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1910s Surrealist Antique Surveyor

Materials

Oil

Cameo of Chief Billy Bowlegs
Located in New Orleans, LA
1855 after a group of surveyors destroyed plants and property in Seminole territory. Bowlegs responded
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Mid-19th Century American Anglo-Indian Antique Surveyor

Cameo of Chief Billy Bowlegs
Cameo of Chief Billy Bowlegs
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H 1.63 in W 1.32 in
Antique Latin Map of the Netherlands & Germany, Incl Roman Forts, Etc., 1631
Located in Langweer, NL
Cluver'. Nicolaes van Geelkercken (1585 - 1656) was a Dutch surveyor and cartographer. Philipp Cluver
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1630s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Original Antique Map of the Road from Andover to Crewkerne
Located in Langweer, NL
roads were surveyed in the course of preparing the atlas, on foot using the surveyor's wheel depicted in
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Late 17th Century Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Senex Map of Castile, Leon & La Mancha in The Spanish Heartland, 1714
Located in Langweer, NL
. The map itself was published in 1714 by John Senex, a prominent English mapmaker, surveyor, globemaker
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Early 18th Century Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Ireland
By John Senex
Located in London, GB
foremost mapmakers in England in the early eighteenth century. He was also a surveyor, globemaker, and
Category

1710s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Engraving

Ireland
H 42.13 in W 30.32 in D 0.79 in
Crest Mill Rochdale large 1906 architectural drawing for Sir Philip Sidney Stott
Located in London, GB
. It was designed by Sir Philip Sidney Stott, the English architect, civil engineer and surveyor. He
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Surveyor

Materials

Watercolor

art nouveau oak stool chair Jugendstil Rabenau embroidery a. 1910 exc condition
Located in Kumhausen, DE
Leipzig's Nikolaikirchhof. Chair construction Adam Friedrich Zürner, the surveyor of Saxony's Elector
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1910s German Art Nouveau Antique Surveyor

Materials

Wool, Jute, Oak

Rare Theodore Danckerts Map of the Lower Rhine and Moselle River Regions
Located in Langweer, NL
de Rij, (1561-1634) was a surveyor who produced a Kaert-boeck showing various views of Amsterdam. His
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Early 18th Century Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

"Sherman Rose" Adobe, Monterey California - Signed 1923 Original Etching
By Ferdinand Burgdorff
Located in Soquel, CA
accompanied surveyors on many trips into the desert. Of this time he wrote: "There were such exciting things
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1920s American Realist Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper, Etching

Charles George Nicholls - Watercolour 1805 - Palace on the Ganges, Anglo - India
By Charles George Nicholls
Located in Meinisberg, CH
East India Company based in Calcutta and was also employed by the Office of the Surveyor-General, where
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Antique Surveyor

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Bucolic Tranquility: Söderfors in Sweden by Ulrik Thersner, 1825
Located in Langweer, NL
, reflecting both his artistic talent and his technical skills as a surveyor and cartographer. Thersner's
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1820s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Roger Sherman 1721-1793 Antique Oil Portrait American Founding Father painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
and to make shoes. He studied to become a surveyor, and, at age 24, he was appointed surveyor of New
Category

19th Century American Realist Antique Surveyor

Materials

Canvas, Oil

South America
By John Senex
Located in London, GB
surveyor, globemaker, and geographer. As a young man, he was apprenticed to Robert Clavell, a bookseller
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1710s Naturalistic Antique Surveyor

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving

South America
South America
H 39 in W 26.75 in
Great Britain
By John Senex
Located in London, GB
mapmakers in England in the early eighteenth century. He was also a surveyor, globemaker, and geographer. As
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1710s Naturalistic Antique Surveyor

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving

Country Byways, Original Artwork for Advertisement, 20th Century English
Located in London, GB
Gallery" of that period.  From 1928 he took on the position of Surveyor of the King's Pictures. Oliver
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Early 20th Century Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Flora Conspicua by Richard Morris
Located in Middletown, NY
Moutan (double page). Little seems to be known of Richard Morris, who was a surveyor and landscape
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Early 19th Century English Antique Surveyor

Materials

Leather, Paper

Flora Conspicua by Richard Morris
Flora Conspicua by Richard Morris
H 9.13 in W 5.63 in D 0.75 in
A truly delightful miniature terrestrial pocket globe
By Nathaniel Mills
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
map maker, publisher, surveyor and globe maker Richard Cushee (1696-ca.1734) who operated ‘at the sign
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Mid-18th Century British Dutch Colonial Antique Surveyor

Materials

Other

Pastoral Elegance: Ulrik Thersner's 1824 Aquatint of Djursholm Castle
Located in Langweer, NL
talent and his technical skills as a surveyor and cartographer. Thersner's artistic endeavors served as a
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1820s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Antique Hand-Colored Map of Western Russia and Ukraine, c.1680
Located in Langweer, NL
, (1561-1634) was a surveyor who produced a Kaert-boeck showing various views of Amsterdam. His brother
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1680s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Wonderful Benjamin Pike & Sons (New York) Circa 1850 Theodolite
Located in Placerville, CA
British-like theodolites, and these American makers did not make very many of them. American surveyors
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Surveyor

Materials

Brass

Gentle Repose at Österby: An 1824 Aquatint by Ulrik Thersner
Located in Langweer, NL
his technical skills as a surveyor and cartographer. Thersner's artistic endeavors served as a
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1820s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

Gentle Repose at Österby: An 1824 Aquatint by Ulrik Thersner
Gentle Repose at Österby: An 1824 Aquatint by Ulrik Thersner
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H 15.75 in W 21.26 in D 0 in
Swedish Grace and Grandeur: The Aquatint Legacy of Ulrik Thersner, 1825
Located in Langweer, NL
, reflecting both his artistic talent and his technical skills as a surveyor and cartographer. Thersner's
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1820s Antique Surveyor

Materials

Paper

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