Object Details
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- Description
- This wooden bar-lock case is covered with leather and lined with blue velvet. The front is marked: KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. NEW YORK. The set contains: two steel drawing pens with ivory handles (5-5/8" and 4-3/4"); 3-1/2" German silver and steel compass with removable pen point; 5-5/8" German silver and steel dividers missing one leg with extension bar and pen and pencil point attachments; and a divider point that does not fit either the compass or dividers. The arrangement of instruments does not match any set advertised in Keuffel & Esser catalogs between 1880 and 1936.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- MA.335335
- accession number
- 305958
- catalog number
- 335335
- Object Name
- drawing instruments, set of
- Physical Description
- german silver (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- ivory (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 cm x 21 cm x 10.1 cm; 29/32 in x 8 9/32 in x 3 31/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_1122185
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a185-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
