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N-50
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[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]
Magnetic Compass: Marine
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[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Turned wooden box with screw-on lid (both cracked) and covered with a glass plate (chipped). Dry card compass printed with 32 points labelled in Danish. Seven points marked with stylized winds and animals. Lubber's line, i.e. a cross, inked to the side of the compass well indicating to the helmsman the direction of the ship's prow.
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[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]
Signed on the card: "IVER JENSEN BORGER KIOBENH".
Fleurs-de-lys at north.
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Denmark
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