1870s Architectural Models

Brass clisigonimeter with horizontal circle signed F. Miller Innsbruck n. 115 second half of the 19th century. Complete with accessories and original wooden box. Box size 21 x 19 x 7 cm - 8.2 x 7.5 x 2.8 inches. Excellent condition, fully functional. Topography studies instruments, surveying techniques, calculus and plans to represent graphically in scale a part of the Earth surface on a map, indicating its details like streets, rivers, buildings, cultivations… Topography is one of the most antique...

Brass telescope topographic level, signed firmato F.H Temple Maker Boston made in the second half of the nineteenth century, in original patina and in excellent condition, fully func...

Great Cleps signed Ing. A. Salmoiraghi La Filotecnica Milano n. 6465; the instrument was conceived by Ignazio Porro (1801-1875) and made around the end of the nineteenth century. It is an instrument used for geodetic and topographical measurements. This tacheometer differs from other tacheometers because the graduated circles are not visible but protected from dust and the reading is done through microscopes. The instrument is complete with its original box with accessories. Measures box 7.5x28.5x20 cm. Very good condition and fully functional. After having stayed and worked in different locations, in Piedmont, in Paris and Florence, Ignazio Porro (1801-1875), well-known scientist, professor of optics, inventor and precursor in the field of wide-angle lenses, settled in Milan and began teaching at Polytechnic. In Milan in 1865 he also founded a school-workshop specialized in the construction of topographic instruments together with Alessandro Duroni, pioneer of Italian photography, with the name of Filotecnica. On the death of Duroni, in 1871, Angelo Salmoiraghi, a pupil of Porro, already a very young soldier during the third war of independence against the Austrians, entered into society with his master and in 1877, after the Porro's death he bought the factory, which took the name of La Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi, expanding its product range, producing mathematical instruments for drawing, astronomy, meteorology and navigation; the company builds, among other things, the first Italian sewing machine. During the First World War, it supplied war instruments...

A rare and unusual antique Napoleon III bronze, wood and marble console table, having sets of bronze leaves in a classical Corinthian style, carved wood and a chamfered marble top. I...

From a neoclassical sample, a pair of columns with base and elevation, in standard module. The bases are made of yellow marble and has a wavy profile that closes upwards with a disti...

From a neoclassical sample, a column with base and elevation, in standard module. The base is made out of yellow marble and has a wavy profile that c...

Neat little 19th century relic, shelf decor. No chips, No cracks to cast iron, just wear to enamel finish. Working with combo.

19th century carved alabaster Grand Tour model of Titus arch in Rome.

A small Grand Tour bronze architectural model of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, mounted on black marble base. Created as a souvenir in the late...

A generously sized and well detailed Grand Tour bronze architectural model of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, mounted on a black marble base. ...

A 19th century Grand Tour neoclassical bronze architectural model of the Temple of Vesta, Rome, circa 1875, on a square grey marble base. The primary value in going on the Grand Tou...

A rare, complete 19th century American Folk Art architectural squirrel cage, beautifully preserved, in tin in the form of a meeting house with conical to...