Authentic Nautical Compass

Antique maritime navy compass in very nice original condition.

Nautical magnetic compass, brass and glass signed Star Pathfinder Milton Mass Boston USA No. 60094 from the 1930s. Housed in its original mahogany wood box mounted on gimbals, with...

An Edwardian naval training compass in a glass case having graphic black and white lettering of the compass points and a working metal pointer, printed with the once well-known manuf...

Nautical magnetic compass, made in the USA in the 1930s. Bon état. Housed in its original box with wooden slot lid and mounted on gimbal. Box measures 12x12x8.5 cm - inches 4.8x4.8x...

Nautical magnetic compass, brass and glass signed Star Pathfinder Milton Mass Boston USA No. 60405 from the 1930s. Housed in its original mahogany wood box with slit lid and mounted...

Pre World War I Nautical Compass by E.S.Ritchie Nautical compass mounted by a brass gimbal into a copper brass bound case with sloping glazed aperture with heavily bevelled glass. Flat brass bezel with five holding screws signed ‘E.S.Ritchie’ and numbered 5779. Side opening compartment for a lighted wick with drawer beneath. The compass is mounted in a heavy painted brass bowl with very fine copper pivot supporting the floating direction card. A diaphragm is located in the base of the bowl for temperature compensation. c.1910 E.S.Ritchie founded the business in 1850 to manufacture mechanical, electrical and scientific instruments. In 1857 he turned his attention to navigational instruments and begun making marine bearing compasses for the U.S.Navy before the American civil war. At the time the British admiralty dry mounted nautical compasses were considered by all navies and commercial shipping companies as the highest technological standard of the day, however, in 1860 Ritchie had received a US patent for the first successful and practical liquid-filled marine compass for general use. A major step forward in the technology of the compass. With the damping provided by the liquid, together with gimbal mounting, the floating card of the Ritchie compass...

A 1950’s ship’s gimble mounted compass by C.M. Hammer, Gothenburg, of Sweden. Marked: C.M. HAMMAR GOTEBORG 3553 Compass card by Observator of Rotterdam. Pine case. Carl Mauritz...

Nautical compass on gimbal signed DIRIGO Eugen M. Sherman Seattle USA 1920s, mounted on custom-made walnut and brass board. Eight-twenty rose complete with protractor circle. The com...

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Raro cronometro di bordo firmato Whyte, Thomson & Co., Makers to the Admiralty, 144 Broomielaw, GLASGOW, numero 4492, alloggiato nella sua bellissima custodia originale a tre livelli...