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[Richard Flanders]

Unfortunately, this one is a rubbish Chinese knockoff that one of my assistant geologists bought not knowing what she was getting. I gave her a real Brunton and she left camp without this one. Do you have a "foresters compass" like this in your collection? They also made them with folding survey arms and a tripod adapter. This is the smoothest operating and most precisely made hand compass I have ever seen.

[edgarspencer]

I have a similar K&E but it's mounted in rosewood, I think. My pole compass is a very early Gurley and several of the theodolites are either Berger or Keufel and Esser.
It's funny the things we collect. Most Parker guys appreciate all types of fine mechanical details. Don't get me going on clocks and Music Boxes.

Rather than fill up this thread, I started a new Album, entitled The Things We Collect.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=772