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Folding square
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      F. Rousselot
    • Place:
      Paris
    • Date:
      18th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 145 mm
    • Inventory:
      3629
    • Folding square (Inv. 3629)

Folding square signed by the Paris maker F. Rousselot, about whom we have no information. Housed in a boxwood case. On the inside of the lid there is a linear scale for reference. The legs pivot at the center of a small protractor that provides an instant reading of the angular aperture.