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Featured Compasses (Click on Compasses above for more) | ||
Taylor Hunter Compass, c. 1920 |
Pocket Barometer Thermometer Compass Compendium by BENETFINK & Co., c. 1880 |
Georgian Wooden English Sundial and Compass by Jones Holborn, London, c. 1820 SOLD |
Antique French Sundial Compass, c. 1900 SOLD |
STANLEY London Engraved Compass, c. 1915 SOLD |
Antique French Equinoctial Sundial and Compass for the American Market, c. 1900 |
Featured Watches (Click on Watches above for more) | ||
Lancashire Watch Co. - Prescot- 16 Size Hunter Gold Filled Pocket Watch, c. 1900 |
14K Solid Gold OMEGA Swiss Pocket Watch c. 1908 |
Silver Pair Case Verge Fusee Alarm Pocket Watch by Simon Mair of Neuburg, c. 1705 SOLD |
Mint Elgin 16S Railroad Pocket Watch 1954 SOLD |
Antique 1903 Elgin Gold Filled 16 Size, 17 Jewels, Grade 246 Pocket Watch SOLD |
Solid Silver Hunter Swiss Pocket Watch, c. 1900 SOLD |
He was five years old when his eyes came across a little compass for the first time. He was playing in the open field far from the house, and the new discovery made him run to meet his father. It was a little open-faced compass with a small needle. At first, the boy thought it was a watch, but the strange movement of the single needle, which even him recognized that it was unusual in watches, intrigued him. He was running fast, clutching the compass so carefully in his hand, searching for his father. He not for the world wanted to risk loosing his new discovery. His father tried hard to explain its mechanism, but in vain. The knowledge of the surrounding world was too small for the boy to understand. Finally, his father told him that a compass helps navigators find their way when they are lost. The intrigued boy felt a kind of magic in the air. He stopped listening and thought: 'I have a magic device, it is called a compass, what a magic word, ... compass ...' |
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