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PINULUM GRAPHOMETER

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Made of brass. The openwork dial is richly engraved with foliage and features an eight-point compass rose, with north indicated by a fleur-de-lis. Signed along the scale: ‘Langlois à Paris, aux Galleries du Louvre’.
Claude Langlois (1703–1756), first half of the 18th century.
Height: 15.5 cm – Width: 27.5 cm.
In its original case, shaped to fit the compass, with remnants of small fleur-de-lis-shaped metal fittings.
(Minor damage and losses)