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Reduction compass
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      Agostino Rastrelli
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1719
    • Materials:
      brass, steel; case: wood, leather
    • Dimensions:
      length 265 mm
    • Inventory:
      688
    • Reduction compass (Inv. 688)

Reduction compass with fixed center, signed by Agostino Rastrelli, a maker about whom we have no information. Contained in a black case. There are accessories with interchangeable points of different lengths according to the reduction ratios desired.