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Surveying rods
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      German
    • Date:
      16th cent.
    • Materials:
      gilt brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 880 mm
    • Inventory:
      2536, 2537
    • Surveying rods (Inv. 2536, 2537)

Two supports, each consisting of three sections and two caps. These were accessories for mining instruments. Brought to Florence from Germany by Prince Mattias de' Medici in the first half of the seventeenth century.