Object Details
- Description
- This leg for a drawing compass has a brass top, which is jointed, and German silver pen points with an adjusting screw. Loosening the screw increases the width of the pen line to be drawn. At the turn of the 20th century, compasses frequently came with interchangeable legs, one for drawing with pencil lead and one for drawing with ink. The compass to which this pen point belonged may have been part of a set of drawing instruments. Due to its different shape and materials, it is probably not from the same compass as MA.335336.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- MA.335338
- accession number
- 305958
- catalog number
- 335338
- Object Name
- pen point
- compass, drawing (partial)
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 cm x 1.1 cm x .6 cm; 3 17/32 in x 7/16 in x 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Dividers and Compasses
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_904320
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-498a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
