A late 18th/early 19th-Century brass and steel drawing set, unsigned , with a ruling pen, three pairs of dividers, two with detachable legs, pen attachment and another with a blunt foot, brass semi-circular protractor, unmarked wooden rule ( end broken off ) bone ink dish and a steel-cased compass with hand-coloured paper dial ( needle missing ) in a chamois-lined fitted case covered in red leather, with two brass hooks and eyes -- 20.6cm. (8¼in.) wide ; and three pairs of [?]18th-Century brass and steel dividers, one with double point on one leg, another with a thread at the top of the points, the third with rose motif engraved on the hinge and fingerholds on the legs, this largest -- 24.4cm. (9 5/8in.) long ; the smallest -- 13.7cm. (5 3/8in.) long
A late 18th/early 19th-Century brass and steel drawing set, unsigned , with a ruling pen, three pairs of dividers, two with detachable legs, pen attachment and another with a blunt foot, brass semi-circular protractor, unmarked wooden rule ( end broken off ) bone ink dish and a steel-cased compass with hand-coloured paper dial ( needle missing ) in a chamois-lined fitted case covered in red leather, with two brass hooks and eyes -- 20.6cm. (8¼in.) wide ; and three pairs of [?]18th-Century brass and steel dividers, one with double point on one leg, another with a thread at the top of the points, the third with rose motif engraved on the hinge and fingerholds on the legs, this largest -- 24.4cm. (9 5/8in.) long ; the smallest -- 13.7cm. (5 3/8in.) long
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