Pocket Compass
Pocket Compass
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- Description
- This small round pocket compass has a brass case with pull-off cover. The donors, Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr. and his wife, Dorothy Mix Meigs, indicated that it had belonged to one of their ancestors.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pocket compass
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- PH.337174
- catalog number
- 337174
- accession number
- 248268
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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