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3122009133338734Code 1932 Antique binnacle 1920 sBrass binnacle for lifeboat, liquid compass mounted inside on an universal joint. 1920's. Height cm 26 - inches 10.23. It's a magnetic compass withgimbals, mounted in a life boat binnacle, brass and glass, with light for night illumination.

This compass has a brass cylindrical box, named mortar; on its bottom a hard metal stem is fixed, named sensitive element; on this element it is leaned a compass card, appropriately fixed: the zero has to coincide with magnetic polarity. To limit friction, mortar is filled with a low freezing point liquid, that has to quench rapidly swings, and it is closed with a strong glass protection.

Antique compasses are instruments that had always a large public of collectors, that choose them between all nautical instruments.

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