Unspecified / ca 1900
Pen Point for Drawing Compass
Pen Point for Drawing Compass
The Smithsonian catalogs Pen Point for Drawing Compass as pen point in its Mathematics records.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
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 par