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1523371408Code 5561A Antique pelorusAntique brasse pelorus, signed Queen-Gray Co Phlia USA, made in the second half of the XIX century. The instrument is equipped with a sighting system with movable pinnules and targets and an eight-wind compass card complete with an engraved goniometric circle. it has a lead counterweight and it is mounted on an oak wood board. Very good condition, fully functional. Board 38.5x17.5 cm - 15.15x6.88 inches, diameter of the instrument 32 cm - 12.59 inches, internal diameter 24 cm - 9.44 inches, total height cm 40 - inches 15.74.

It is a graphometer in a round crown mounted on a universal joint and it used to determinate the position of a ship: tracing two points on coast you can find two direction lines; where these lines join themselves there is the position of the ship. The term pelorus is derived from the name of Hannibal’s pilot, who assisted him in getting his troops across Europe and who kept him in touch with Carthage by sea.

James W. Queen & Company as a firm active in Philadelphia between 1853 and 1925 and then as Gray Instrument until 1952. The main instruments produced were: astronomical instruments, gyroscopes, drawing instruments and mathematicians, nautical instruments, etc.

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