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Caliper compass
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      Peugeot Frères
    • Place:
      French
    • Date:
      19th cent.
    • Materials:
      steel
    • Dimensions:
      length 185 mm
    • Inventory:
      3693
    • Caliper compass (Inv. 3693)
    • Caliper compass (Inv. 3693)

Caliper compass consisting of two arched legs displaying small straight marks at the hinge point. The instrument is engraved with the name of its makers, the Peugeot brothers, on whom we have no information.