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1525857992Code 5745A Antique compass LadoisRare and particular ancient magnetic compass for topographer and to travel, made of oak and brass; instrument consisting of a magnetized needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane, marking with its point the direction of magnetic north, compass card complete with a goniometric circle engraved in 360 °, complete with the compass needle lock,inclinometer from 0 ° to 90 ° and of a ruler of 16 cm; system created by the Général Peigné and made by the French scientific instrument manufacturer Ladois in the second half of the nineteenth century. Signed Ladois Costructeur 28 Rue Mazarine Systeme du Capitaine Peigné. Good condition, fully functional. Cm 8.9x8.4x3 - inches 3.5x3.3x1.18.
The French officer Paul Peigné, who had studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, fought in the war between France and Germany in 1870-1871 and taught surveying at the military academy of Saint-Cyr, gave his name to a particular type of compass which he completed in the late nineteenth century, which included a clinometer in the capsule of compass; there were also the instructions pasted on the top and on the bottom of the box of the compass. The oldest examples of this type of compass has usually the signature "System by Lieutenant-Colonel PEIGNE". In fact he became lieutenant colonel in 1886, colonel in 1890 and brigadier general in 1898. This type of compass was produced by several companies, such as Morin and Ladois.
The Ladois company was a French manufacturer of surveying instruments and compasses in the late nineteenth century, based in Paris at 69 rue Gambetta, Malakoff.
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