- Subject
- Drawing instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- J. Conte
- Provenance
- From the Oxfordshire County Museum; previously donated by Mr Alington.
- Primary inscriptions
- "J. CONTE / BREVETÉ S.G.D.G. / PARIS" on rule C.
- Physical material
- Boxwood and metal
- Object type
- Pantograph
- Inventory No
- 37396
- Accession Number
- 1975-4
Description
Four wooden rules (3 full length, one half length), each with a scale from 2 to 10. A pencil holder, an ivory tracing point and a screw for attachment to the drawing surface can be interchanged at the points marked A, B and C. The support linking rules A and C is missing, as is one thumb screw. Cf. inv. 35660.
