TELL-TALE CROWN COMPASS J.M. KLEMAN AMSTERDAM CA. 1790
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TELL-TALE CROWN COMPASS J.M. KLEMAN AMSTERDAM CA. 1790
A very rare Dutch hanging tell-tale compass.
Signed by venerated Royal instrument maker Jan Maarten Kleman of Amsterdam.
Made by the end of the 18th century, ca 1790.
A very pretty instrument shaped like a king’s crown.
It’s fully intact and has the original gimballed suspension.
Very delicate and undamaged dry map.
The compass is of museum quality and is in perfect working order.
This type of compass (a.k.a. ‘The Spy’) used to hang in the captain’s hut above his bunk.
Lying in his bunk he could monitor the course of the ship.
Jan Maarten Kleman was an instrument manufacturer and purveyor the Royal Households
of King Louis Napoleon in 1808 and King William Frederic the First in 1815.
SOLD TO THE US
A very rare Dutch hanging tell-tale compass.
Signed by venerated Royal instrument maker Jan Maarten Kleman of Amsterdam.
Made by the end of the 18th century, ca 1790.
A very pretty instrument shaped like a king’s crown.
It’s fully intact and has the original gimballed suspension.
Very delicate and undamaged dry map.
The compass is of museum quality and is in perfect working order.
This type of compass (a.k.a. ‘The Spy’) used to hang in the captain’s hut above his bunk.
Lying in his bunk he could monitor the course of the ship.
Jan Maarten Kleman was an instrument manufacturer and purveyor the Royal Households
of King Louis Napoleon in 1808 and King William Frederic the First in 1815.
SOLD TO THE US