Estimated Price:

£400 - £600

Realised Price:

£239 ($435)

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unsigned, the glazed compass with blued-steel needle and silvered scale, the drum with three pairs of sights, silvered scale and turning knob, on a staff mounting, in a felt-lined wooden box; a 19th-Century lacquered-brass cross staff, unsigned but engraved on the underside 10, the 1 3/4 -inch diameter drum with four pairs of sights, aperture at the top and threaded handle, fitting inside for storage in a brass cannister -- 7cm. (2 3/4 in.) high; a lacquered-brass line ranger, the 1 5/8-inch diameter body with plumb line hook inside and threaded base, two reflecting glass prisms mounted on top, with threaded brass cap, in a cylindrical leather case -- 7.7cm. (3in.) high; a good early 20th-Century miniature sighting level signed LUDW. TESDORPF STUTTGART and stamped PATENT WAGNER N O2124, the telescope with rack and pinion adjustment, the body with concealed bubble level read through second eyepiece lens, the detachable base with fine-screw vertical adjustment, in a fitted purple felt-lined pigskin-covered case -- 15.2cm. (6in.) wide; and a 1943 olive-painted military range-finder made by Research Enterprises Ltd, Canada, and Barr & Stroud Ltd, Glasgow, no.AP10080, with rubber ends, prismatic sights and staff mounting -- 11cm. (43 3/4 in.) wide; a brass gunner's sighting instrument stamped 1944 DS&S no1704 V.E.0067, the bubble level mounted on top on a curved base moved by twisting the telescope in the housing beneath, with dovetail mounting -- 13.9cm. (5 1/2 in.) wide; and a small brass-cased bubble level on a flat base, in a black-painted tin container -- 8.9cm. (3 1/2 in.) wide

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