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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Ships compass, that could have been a lifeboat/reserve compass incase the main steering compass failed and used in the lifeboat if nessery. Would have been in a wood box or brass dome. This one has spent the last few years as desktop decoration. Made by the Australian company E. Esdaile & Sons, gimbal mounted, liquid filled clear easy to read compass rose,that turns freely. Has the normal small age bubble, and a dent in the bowl, but works perfectly. Dia gimbal ring 220mm compass dia 185mm height 120mm.Please see the photos as they are part of the listed discription will be well packed for sending and sent with depending where. 67526469
