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 steel pen points with a brass screw for adjusting 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. This part does not resemble any of the compasses advertised in Keuffel & Esser, Dietzgen, or