- Subject
- Navigation
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Found in the Museum without provenance in 2003.
- Primary inscriptions
- "PUBLIC SCHOOL PRIZE AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART", on gummed ornate label on case. "DIEU ET MON DROIT", on gummed ornate label on case.
- Object type
- Compass
- Dimensions
- Width: 36mm
- Inventory No
- 67537
- Accession Number
- 2003-3
Description
Pair of brass compasses, one smaller than the other, containing pencils. Contained in wood-lined slip case, covered in embossed paper. Small motif of acorns? stamped across break in slip case. Motif of "V" and "A" intertwined underneath a crown to left hand edge of label.
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