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Surveyor's Drawing Table, perhaps by George Adams, English, 18th Century

Inventory Number 49087

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.49087

Subject
Surveying
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Friends of the Old Ashmolean; purchased by them from Mrs Alkin. Probably owned by John Thompson.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Physical material
Mahogany
Boxwood
Dimensions
Height: 23mm Width: 578mm Depth: 527mm Weight: 3100g
Inventory No
49087
Accession Number
1932-34

Description

Square wooden drawing board. Around the edge of the table is an inset boxwood scale of inches. The inner edge of the boxwood scale measures 20 x 18 inches and the scales are numbered 9-0-9 or 10-0-10. At the 0 point of each scale there is an indication of the subdivision of its double inch scale. Two adjacent sides have 16 and 20; the other two sides have 24 and 30.

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