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1506087171Code 5758 Vintage compassNautical liquid compass made in 1920s trade by Mercantile Stores Ltd Middlesbrough. It is mounted on universal joint and is placed in its original wooden box. Measures cm 19x19x14(h) - inches 7.48x7.48x5.5 (h). Very good condition and working.

The invention of compass is mysterious but it is well known that magnetite was discovered in Magnesia, a city of Asia Minor. At the beginning of ‘300 Giordano da Pisa spoke about magnet as “very useful and necessary” in navigation. Dante in Paradise XII 29 wrote about magnetic needle that indicates the North. Antique compasses are measuring instruments that had always a large public of collectors, that choose them between all antique instruments.

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