Thaxter Dry Card Compass
- Description
- This compass has a turned wooden bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. The inscription reads "S. THAXTER MAKER No 27 STATE STREET BOSTON." It was made between 1813 when S. Thaxter moved to No. 27 State Street, and 1822 when the firm became S. Thaxter & Son. The donor believed that it had belonged to his distant ancestor, Simon Mellon, and was used in a whaling vessel in the Bering Sea.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1813-1822
- maker
- Thaxter, Samuel
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Measurements
- box: 5 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 19.05 cm x 19.05 cm
- compass bowl: 4 3/4 in; 12.065 cm
- overall in box: 5 3/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 19.3675 cm x 18.7325 cm
- ID Number
- 1995.0014.01
- accession number
- 1995.0014
- catalog number
- 1995.0014.01
- Credit Line
- Curtis G. Mellen
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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