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Description:

Japanese pocket compass. Printed paper dial "JAPAN."

Inexpensive pocket compass, aluminum case, this piereced for a lanyard ring, glass bezil, paper dial and band around insdie diameter of case, flat needle with metal cap.

Dial white paper, black print, eight cardinal points lettered, graduated full circle by degrees, numbered every twenty degrees.

Location: Currently not on view

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Credit Line: Gift of George Watson

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1987.0787.03Catalog Number: 1987.0787.03Accession Number: 1987.0787

Object Name: pocket compass

Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 4.445 cmoverall: 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 4.445 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c63b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1762418

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Pocket Compass