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36-inch Brass Rolling Parallel Bar
Lot: 91Unsold36-inch Brass Rolling Parallel Bar, America or England, c. 1890, chamfered brass plate, with two knurled knobs flanking the raised ridge, two rotating grooved collars allow instrument to travel over more ...
Cased Wooden Model of the USS Constitution
Lot: 92Sold for: $4,800$4,000Cased Wooden Model of the USS Constitution, mid-20th century, the frigate constructed of mahogany and bass wood planking, foremast, mainmast and mizzenmast each having main-top decks, jib, and beam more ...
G. Gobille Brass Armillary Sphere
Lot: 93Sold for: $800$650G. Gobille Brass Armillary Sphere, France, 19th century, engraved A Paris Chez G. Gobille, a l'Ache Royalle, calibrated and adjustable equatorial and meridian rings, the large equatorial ring more ...
Rand McNally 3-inch Terrestrial Globe
Lot: 94Sold for: $720$600Rand McNally 3-inch Terrestrial Globe, Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, Illinois, c. 1890, with twelve printed gores on a papier-mache orb, equator and ecliptic lines, maker's cartouche, semicircular more ...
12-inch Terrestrial Globe by Cruchley's
Lot: 95Sold for: $660$55012-inch Terrestrial Globe by Cruchley's, London, 19th century, twelve printed gores on a plaster sphere with cartouche reading in part, Cruchley's New Terrestrial Globe, Exhibiting the Discoveries more ...
Four English Aneroid Pocket Barometers
Lot: 96Sold for: $300$250Four English Aneroid Pocket Barometers, London, late 19th century, by F. Barker & Son, J.J. Hicks, J.H. Steward, and Schletter & Co., all marked on the dials with various scale divisions. more ...
Brass Mountain Barometer by Cary
Lot: 97Sold for: $1,000$1,000Brass Mountain Barometer by Cary, London, mid-19th century, 38-in. brass tube with scale calibrated from 15-32, brass cased thermometer calibrated in both Fahrenheit and centigrade, brass mounted more ...
Dutch Neoclassical Mahogany Barometer, Thermometer, and Contraleur
Lot: 98Sold for: $2,880$2,400Dutch Neoclassical Mahogany Barometer, Thermometer, and Contraleur, Amsterdam, with a broken arch pediment and brass finial, over two pewter register plates with calibrations, enclosed by a hinged more ...
Parnell Rosewood Stick Barometer
Lot: 99Sold for: $3,360$2,800Parnell Rosewood Stick Barometer, London, 19th century, arched top over the ivory barometer plate engraved Parnell, Hermitage Bridge, London, scale calibrated 27-31, ivory wheel vernier, beaded more ...
W. & S. Jones Mahogany Stick Barometer
Lot: 100Sold for: $1,440$1,200W. & S. Jones Mahogany Stick Barometer, London, 19th century, swan's neck pediment with finely turned ivory finial over the glazed silvered dial plate engraved W & S Jones London, scale calibrated more ...
John Bryne 4-inch Brass Refracting Telescope
Lot: 101UnsoldJohn Bryne 4-inch Brass Refracting Telescope, New York, 1880, with 59 1/2-in. main tube, rack focus single-draw eyepiece, engraved J Bryne New York 1880, seven additional eyepieces and prism in a more ...
Brass Telescope by Dollond
Lot: 102Sold for: $780$650Brass Telescope by Dollond, London, inscribed Dollond, London at eyepiece end, 2 1/2-in. subject lens with a 1 1/4-in. draw tube, lens adjustment knob on right side of the body, tapered 12-in. more ...
E.R. Watts & Son Brass Scope
Lot: 103UnsoldE.R. Watts & Son Brass Scope, London, 10-in. sighting scope marked in part, E.R. Watts & Son Ltd. London, No. 60859, with a 1 1/2-in. lens, knurled horizontal and vertical adjustment knobs, bubble more ...
T. Cooke Surveyor's Scope
Lot: 105UnsoldT. Cooke Surveyor's Scope, York, England, the 1-in. lens brass scope with a short draw eyepiece, 6-in. cylinder body marked in script T. Cooke, York, bubble level and knurled adjustment knob on more ...
Four Spyglasses
Lot: 106Sold for: $246$200Four Spyglasses, a 2-in. leather-clad example marked Bruce & Son, Wapping Liverpool, Day or Night on the single-draw tube, lens cap, lg. 20 in.; a wood-clad example marked Hemsley, London, Day or more ...
Three Early Spyglasses
Lot: 107Sold for: $210$175Three Early Spyglasses, all with 1 3/4-in. lenses and sun shades; an oxidized brass and leather-clad three-draw glass marked on small draw Raoul Bouffioulx Yolimdont Belgique. 1905, and three-draw more ...
J. Lancaster & Son 3-inch Brass Tabletop Telescope
Lot: 108Sold for: $1,599$1,300J. Lancaster & Son 3-inch Brass Tabletop Telescope, Birmingham, England, 19th century, with a 41-in. barrel tube, dust cap, rack and pinion focusing, 15 1/2-in. eyepiece, 12-in. finding scope, and more ...
2-inch Brass Telescope by T. Blunt
Lot: 109Sold for: $554$4502-inch Brass Telescope by T. Blunt, Cornhill, London, signed T. Blunt Cornhill London at the ocular end, 26 1/2-in. brass tube with an 8 1/2-in. eyepiece, rack focusing, on folding Queen Ann snake more ...
Barr and Stroud-type G.K.5 Binoculars
Lot: 110Sold for: $900$750Barr and Stroud-type G.K.5 Binoculars, mid-20th century, with black painted metal and brass body, one eyepiece on a sliding dovetail platform with adjustable arm scale calibrated 55-75 and fine more ...
Zeiss Stainless Steel WWII 12X60 Spotting Binocular
Lot: 111Sold for: $4,500$3,750Zeiss Stainless Steel WWII 12X60 Spotting Binocular, c. 1940, 2 1/4-in. diameter optics, individually adjusting eyepieces with angle-mounted prism, left eyepiece having a lever for interpupillary more ...
Tri-power Binocular Telescope by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar
Lot: 112UnsoldTri-power Binocular Telescope by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, c. 1915, no. 135750, with a pair of 3/4-in. objective lenses, left tube engraved 25 x 40 x 55, three eyepieces on two round turrets to change more ...
Stainless Steel 10 x 50 Periscope by Carl Zeiss
Lot: 113UnsoldStainless Steel 10 x 50 Periscope by Carl Zeiss, RWDF 10 x 50, 12-133-3624, c. 1960, with sliding lens hood, steel cylinder mount, pair of focusing lenses with rubber eye caps, interpupillary more ...
Ets. Maxant Barograph
Lot: 114Sold for: $215$175Ets. Maxant Barograph, 38 Rue Belgrand, Paris, the mahogany and glass case with hinged lid, lacquered brass drum, aneroid barometer with three bellows, pen, and maker's plate stamped Made in France more ...
Three Sike's Hydrometers
Lot: 115Sold for: $215$175Three Sike's Hydrometers, London, each with calibrated brass gauges, set of weights, and housed in wooden box with bone plaque stating Sikes Hydrometer, and retailer's name, a T.O. Blake complete more ...
Tangent Galvanometer by the Central Scientific Company
Lot: 116Sold for: $431$350Tangent Galvanometer by the Central Scientific Company, Chicago, Illinois, 8 3/4-in. brass ring, copper-bezel indicator with paper dial divided into four quadrants marked 0-90, four brass and more ...
Chicago Apparatus Company Resistance Box
Lot: 117Sold for: $185$150Chicago Apparatus Company Resistance Box, Science Laboratory Equipment, Chicago, Illinois, with a gutta-percha bed, brass resistance plug sockets, and tapered plugs/connectors, all on a mahogany more ...
Benjamin Pike & Sons Vacuum Pump
Lot: 118Sold for: $3,480$2,900Benjamin Pike & Sons Vacuum Pump, 518 Broadway, New York, c. 1890, cast iron pump with a turned wood and brass handle, 2-in. piston, brass fittings, flattened thumbscrews, two iron and brass more ...
Oertling Micro Balance Scale
Lot: 119Sold for: $210$175Oertling Micro Balance Scale, London, model 62 FMA, mahogany and glass case with front sliding door and two hinged doors on sides, black plastic platform with bubble level, beam stamped L. Oertling more ...
Kassoy Analytical Balance Scale
Lot: 120UnsoldKassoy Analytical Balance Scale, model 120-MG, serial no. V-101951, metal and Plexiglas case with two sliding doors, center beam with scale calibrated 0-10, center pillar and plumb line, scale and more ...
Balance Scale by Torsion Balance Co.
Lot: 121UnsoldBalance Scale by Torsion Balance Co., New York, the glass and metal case with two parallel beams, scale marked 0-20 in grams, metal tag stating Torsion Balance Co. New York, Style 253, No. B110024, more ...