Dry card compass in a copper bowl. The compass is gimbaled mounted in a wooden case of oak. Sliding cover is missing. The inside of the bowl is painted white with lubber’s line. On the rose 32 points and the name of the maker. On the rose, north with fleur de lis. In the middle of the rose a bras top with sapphire.
At de underside of the rose is a heavily compass needle mounted with pins on the rose. The rose is not compensated for magnatic variation.

Made by Dirk Barend Selter, compass maker from 1840-1899, Binnen Bantammerstraat, Amsterdam. The details of the compass suggest an early specimen.

Catalogue: NM.7-06
Date: 1850-1870
WL case: 14x19x19 cm
D compass: 13,5 cm
Signed: + D.B. SELTER + AMSTERDAM
Origin: Netherlands
Condition: in good condition, wear consistent with age and use