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Mining Instruments
Unsigned
Later 16th century; German
Ivory, wood; 164 x 115 x 30 mm (case)

This set of mine surveying instruments is preserved in its original solid wooden box, whose lid carries a manuscript list of its original owners. The hollowed-out base of the box retains three instruments, a hanging compass, a folding square and a small T-square. It is clear from the shape of the storage compartment that at least two other instruments were originally included in the set, one of them a hanging clinometer.

In common with other sets of German mine surveying instruments of the period, the ivory surfaces are engraved with simple but effective decoration.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 62568

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