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Military pocket compass featuring the same design as the famous Modèle 1922. The MILS were no longer indicated by four but only by two digits (compare with MORIN). This very simple basic design didn't permit to take as precise bearings as with the original Modèle 1922 which was integrated in a case with an aiming device in the cover. | Technical
Data - Diameter: 55 mm - Depth: 18 mm - Weight: 65 gr  Transit lock on the side |
 Pictures by courtesy of The Compasscollector (see LINKS) |
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Mark V
compass with SINGER's
patent card design. It was superseded in the end of 1916 by the much
more precise Mark VI design. Example: see W. Terrasse. Technical Data - Diameter: 45 mm - Depth: 14 mm |
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Signature:
Dollond London Picture courtesy fatato81 Technical Data - Diameter: 55 mm - Height: 15 mm |
"Long
neck"
design |
Technical
Data - Diameter: mm - Length: mm - Face: émail - Date : mid 19th C. |
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Data 1932 catalogue of the AUX ÉCLAIREURS shops Camping materiel, among others compasses. (Click on images for enlarged views) |
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 Pictures courtesy J.M.A. (Bakjma) |
Technical
Data Light boy scout compass - Diameter: 50mm - Height: 15mm - Weight: 29gr - Divisions: 360° clockwise - Production: 1950's - Material: bakelite |
 Catalogue for 1937 (click on the image for an enlarged view together with a similar compass published in the 1938 Stockert & S. catalogue) |
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Technical
Data - Diameter: 45 mm - Height: 14 mm - Weight: 36 gr - Divisions: 360° clockwise - Production: late 1970's Typical WILKIE-made compass. This is easily recognizable because of the needle's shape and the stabilizing winglets (not to be seen on this picture because of the yellowish discolouration of the crystal. (Click on picture at left for enlarged view) |
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The
smallest of
all spring hunter type pocket compasses to date (see Definition in
Miscellaneous / Terminology) Technical Data - Diameter: 1 in. / 25 mm - Depth: 11 mm - Weight: 19 gr |
 Catalogue F S & C Compasses |
 Example: the boussole directrice |
 Various compasses - Top row: For details go to "Pocket Pomp. / Glass", and "Other Comp./ Photographers compasses." |
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French compass with glass rear face, early 20th c. Compare with a similar compass made by C. Stockert & Sohn Technical Data - Diameter: 48mm - Depth: 12mm - Weight: 35grs |
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 Presented as a special compass for ballooning in a Vion catalogue (c. 1910) |
Compass
with glass bottom. It was carried in a leather pouch with snap lock
and a large round
window. Early
20th c. Technical Data - Diameter: 45 mm - Depth: 12 mm - Weight: 40 gr Serial no.: 56 (punched on the side) |
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 Technical Data- Diameter: 45mm - Thickness: 10mm - Weight: 14gr - Convex glass on both sides - Marking: JAPAN (click on link for more items) |
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 Cyclist or rider compass |
British made, maybe J. H. Steward Technical Data - Diameter: 37mm - Thickness: c.15mm ? The compass case is either nickel-plated brass or aluminium, with a black painted exterior finish. The top glass is bevelled, the rear side glass is flat. |
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This
instrument existed also without lid Picture courtesy I. Argyriadis. Click on the images for enlarged views |
Technical
Data - Diameter: 47mm - Thickness: 16mm - "Press-to-release" transit lock in the loop This instrument is in fact a marching compass and very similar to a PLAN Ltd signed instrument. |
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Model
with glass bottom
and sighting
device like the one featured on
the Adrianoff wrist models issued to the Red Army's troops (AYRKKA).
The casing features a groove and two tabs but no divisions. It was part of an unknown instrument. Dim.: Dia.: 55 mm ; Height: 15 mm Compare to the similar transparent items w/o sights made by C. Stockert and to an unsigned one displayed HERE. |
A part
of Houlliot's production c.
1900: |
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  The North mark is the hook-shaped part of a ship's anchor. At right: the printing plate for the Russsian version (Click on the pictures for enlarged views) |
Technical
Data - Diameter: 45mm - Depth: 17mm - Weight: 67grs This hunter type compass is the smallest version of a series of nautical compasses (see this category). The card division (four 90 degrees quadrants) was no longer in use when this item was manufactured (S-L catalogue 1932). |
| Compass
with paper dial
and quandrants dial (diam.: 2" / 50mm)  |
Compass
with a
luminous letter N painted on the
magnet needle |
Double
hunter with transparent case Click to see different configurations 
(Pictures Ted Brink) |
Compass
with N & S
letter shaped needle (compare with BILAND
and NARDIN) |
Box
compass (called Tabatière in French) (see top row, centre - diam. 80 mm)  |
Box compass |
| Marching course arrow is
made of luminous paper glued under
the crystal (early 20th C). Dia. 2" / 50mm  |
French
WW1 marching
compass
called boussole directrice
(link to the history of this compass
type).
Dia.
55mm |
Pic. below, left:
compass with marching course arrow Export version called Invincible in Russian catalogues for Russia (link to more items). Note the needle's C-shaped north end standing for the Russian word for north, CEBEP, pronounce 'sever'. Dia.: 46mm Pic. below, right: Transit lock activated by rotating the serrated bezel (same syst. as the ones made for ZEISS, dia. 44 mm) 
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with transparent bottomDivisions: 360° - Cardinal points - Hole in needle, north side - Dia. available: 45 and 55 mm Pic. courtesy F. Deramo |
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DataDia. 44 mm Divisions 400 grades Note the figures engraved in italics. Compare to the later model made by Collignon after WWII. Pictures courtesy G. Ferry |
 Picture courtesy D. Beving Click on the picture for an enlarged view |
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Data - Diameter: mm - Depth: mm - Singer design on mother of pearl - Cardinals in red paint on crystal (compare with Fr. Barker's catalogue pictures of the models Pathfinder and Prospecting) |
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 The company's logo on a 1908 catalogue (Click on the pictures for enlarged views) |
Technical
Data - Diameter: 45 mm - Depth: 15 mm - Hunter case, bar needle with counterweight - Production year: before 1913 Engraved inside the lid is the logo of Iszard-Warren's brand DU-NORTH compass  |
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Technical Data
(image at left) - Dia.: 1½ " / 37mm - Bar needle - Made probably in the 1920s - Silver-coated face - Cardinals: For more details go to Religion / Chinese Tradition and Miscell. / Cardinal Points (China & Japan). Image at right: compass made probably in the 1930s/40s. Picture courtesy A. Jatsch |
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Examples
of catalogue pages
(Click
on the pictures
for
enlarged views)Cell 1 - Tokyo Compass (green) Seven categories: auto compasses, marine compasses, engineer, camping equipment, pocket compasses, wrist compasses, assortment and display. Cell 2 - Mitsui (blue) Nine categories: (the same plus) lidded pocket compasses and pin-on compasses. |
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Model name K4
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Model name K7
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Technical
Data K4 Dim.: 45x40x10 mm No transit lock Cardinals: Polish language K7: Side length (overall): 50x45x18mm Ruler: 40 mm Transit lock: red button on rear face Cardinals: Polish language |
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Technical
Data Dia: 50mm / 2 in. In addition to the transit lock, the compass possesses a needle brake actuated by pushing downwards the side lever end. The rear sighting aid (pinhole) is not located inside the loop like on most compasses but outside, i.e. on top of it when erected. K & E bought such compasses from F. Barker & Son. Marking on case bottom: MADE IN ENGLAND |
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DataLarge and precise open face instrument Dia: 75mm / 3 in. Thickness: 15mm Weight: 160gr Precision: 2 deg. Transit lock (missing on pic.) actuated via the knob in the loop Picture of catalogue by courtesy of surveyantiques.com |
 Open face, black card. 1930's (Picture courtesy puttyface6) |
 Hunter case, bar needle |
Technical
Data (Hunter Case) - Diameter: 45mm - Depth: 15mm - Weight: 49gr - Radium paint markings - WWI until 1940s (Click on the images for enlarged views) |
General-major Mikhail
Ivanovich KHlynovski
(Хлыновский
Михаил Иванович,
генерал-майор), 1859 - 1910, invented and patented this compass. It was
produced by HOULLIOT in France and sold in Russia by A. LAUBE (A.
Лаубе)
located Sabalkansky Prospekt n°1 and later Sofiskaya
n° 7 in
St-Petersburg. The
French manufacturer HOULLIOT
supplied probably until the 1917 revolution numerous models to Russian
retailers. We were extremely lucky and had access to the
company's archives
(books, clients addresses etc.) of the last owner and head of the
company
Collignon-Houlliot who also produced a box
full of discarded flawed items
(broken crystal, engraving error,
loosened luminous arrow etc.). These boxes contained a typical quantity
of 144 instruments (a so called "grosse" order, i.e. 12 x 12
articles). We could identify at least seven
different models including a planchette
(plane table)
compass (click on link for pics.).
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 Top: 1 inch (20 units) Bottom: 25 mm |
Technical
Data - Diameter: 2" / 50mm - Divisions: none, only cardinals in black (small) and large cut-out giving the luminous paper.  Cardinals in
Russian: see MISCELLANEOUS- Luminous Balmain paper sheet under the dial At right: Example of an imprinted sheet: NOTE: On some items the French word DÉPOSÉ (reg. TM) ist engraved above the signature:  |
 Version engraved PATENT (w/o no.) on back. We don't know any intact item but the lack of difference to other compasses is probably the reason no patent file was ever accepted. |
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 There have been many different versions of the two models described in the list of approved materiels: for officers (at left) and for soldiers (at right). Undelivered compasses still bear on the reverse labels in Russian (link to pic) correspondinmg to several companies of the 162 Infantry Regiment of Akhaltsykhski (Ахалцыхский 162-й пехотный полк). |
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Technical
Data - Dia.:: 48 mm - Double graduation: 360° clockwise and 6000 MILS (only three digits) counter clockwise - Bottom: only two rulers of 1/20 (1 inch) and 1/25 mm - The compass rose is fixed with 4 screws on the the case - Illumination by means of Balmain paper. Click on the image at left for a view of the full page Foto forum.WW2.ru |
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Technical
Data - Diameter: 40 mm - Depth: 10 mm - Weight: 30 g |
 The original celluloid disk with the marching course pointer  |
 The model Marschkompaß assembled Click on the images for enlarged views |
The price
printed inside the box: M[ark] 7,70  |
 Technical
Data
- Diameter: 60mm - Depth: 20mm - Weight: 120gr - Transit lock: excenter in the fitting of the ring - Protection cap for the card's tab (Armeekompaß only) - Luminous markings (Marschkompaß only) - Fixed declination marker |
The model Armeekompaß assembled The
graduated removable
card was made by Kröplin according to our directives on the
base
of existing ones (compare with the KRÖPLIN
ORION square
models).
Pictures
courtesy Jaypee
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PATENT (click on the picture for page 3, fig.)  (English issue also available, go to the SHOP for ordering information) |
View
of dial with insert in place |
Marking on top cover: PATENT KRÖPLIN This model was also signed by ASKANIA. |
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Technical
Data
- Dia.: 55mm - Overall length: 86 mm - Thickness: 18 mm - Weight: 125 g - Transit lock: lever actuated when closing the top cover - Adaption of magnetic declination via an adjustable device on rear face (2 screws, s. pic. at left). |