Vintage Navigation and Engineers Drawing Instruments Lot
This boxed lot of vintage navigation and engineers drawing instruments is offered as a mixed group of antique draughtsmans’ and cartographers’ items. The principal piece is a long wooden rolling rule with a brass-fitted channel, a knurled metal adjuster and a pale handle with a rounded finial, described here as a cartographers’ rolling rule. Alongside it sit a further long wooden straight rule with a darkened finish, a tin of Diabolo pointed waisted pencils with a blue printed label, a wooden-handled cylindrical item, and several paintbrushes with wooden and metal ferrules. The lot also includes a card box for printed dance programmes with pencils, a folded sheet of Ordnance Survey maps, and a black case bearing the Canon name.
Condition and Collector Interest
The items show clear signs of age and use, with wear to the wooden surfaces, scuffing to the brass fittings and creasing to the folded map sheets. The pencil tin label and the printed dance programme box retain their printed text, and the rulers remain in recognisable form. No assurance is given as to the functionality of any piece in this lot, and it is offered as seen. The mixture of drafting, mapping and artists’ materials will appeal to collectors of antique drawing instruments, those interested in historic cartographic tools, and buyers seeking a characterful group for display or study.
