AN EARLY 18TH-CENTURY FOLDING SQUARE BY BUTTERFIELD, PARIS
signed Butterfield À Paris and engraved over one side with different scales entitled Pouce Du Rhin / Pouce De Roy and Ligne À Plans, hinged at centre with plumb-bob string hole and cut-away cavity -- 8¾in. (22.2cm.) folded; together with an early 19th-century French folding brass square for old and new measurements, unsigned
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Provenance: Sotheby's, 21st October 1977.

Condition Report
In strong overall condition.

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