- Subject
- Electronic instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Elliott Brothers
- Provenance
- Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Elliott Collection 1051 (kept with the Elliott Archive).
- Object type
- Electronic instrument
- Dimensions
- Height: 17.75inches Width: 12.75inches
- Inventory No
- 11830
- Accession Number
- 2003-11
Description
Framed ensemble relating to Elliott Brothers compass cards, consisting of the following items attached to a card mount, framed and glazed: compass card and paper pull from the copperplate bottom right, just under 2½-inch diameter (top row); compass card and paper pull from a different plate, 3-inch diameter (middle row); copperplate for compass card, 4½-inch square, scale 2½-inch diameter (bottom left); copperplate for compass card, 3-inch square, scale just under 2½-inch diameter (bottom right; see top row); they bear the name Elliott Bros, and one the address 101 St Martin's Lane [used from about 1896 to 1902].
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