Boston Compass by F.W. Lincoln Jr

Large brass and glass nautical magnetic compass, late 19th century, signed Kelvin-White Boston-New York, mounted on custom-made oak and brass board. Measures 33x25x22 cm - inches 1...

6 Vol. Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln. The Sangamon Edition. Illustrated frontispiece. Includes photographs, cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. Marbled endpapers. 3/4 blue Morocc...

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...

The Furniture of Historic Deerfield by Dean A. Fales. Deerfield: Historic Deerfield, Inc., 1981. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket. 294 pp. A book on the antique American furniture collections of historic Deerfield Massachusetts. The book includes details of the pieces with their histories, woods, and dimensions. It also includes information on the development of styles and the use of forms. The largest percentage of the collection is New England furniture...

Antique maritime navy compass in very nice original condition.

The Pleasure of His Company by Paul B. Fay Jr. 1st edition hardcover printed in 1963. Protective Mylar dust jacket has been added.

A visually striking smaller scale vintage WWII era maritime salvage ship's binnacle pedestal with compass by Sestrel Henry Browne & Son. circa 1940s The beautifully aged heavily patinated polished brass binnacle housing a high quality marine navigational instrument, having an enclosed brass bowl English Sestrel compass...

Antique print depicting the Lincoln Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln. Artists and Engravers: Made by J. Basir...

Beautiful elegant compass circa 1970's in solid brass with glass bt spencer & Co.

Offered is a collage celebrating General George S. Patton Jr. This collage features Patton's original signature on a section of cream paper. Patton's neat signature and rank appears ...