Bidspirit auction | A Trio of Compasses including

A Trio of Compasses including a Boxed Surveyor's Instrument and Two Lensatic Compasses - This lot comprises three various compasses, featuring a boxed instrument and two military-style lensatic compasses. The first is a surveyor's or pocket compass with a brass casing, set into a mahogany-coloured hardwood presentation box with a green felt-lined interior. The white dry card dial displays a central compass rose with cardinal directions and a fleur-de-lis marking North. The outer edge is graduated in four quadrants from 0 to 90 degrees. The wooden case is fitted with two knurled brass adjustment knobs and a simple brass hook-and-eye latch. The second instrument is a military-style prismatic lensatic marching compass with a matte olive drab metal body. The base is engraved with map scales for 1:50,000 and distance graduations for 2,000, 4,000, and 6,000 metres. The rotating compass card features dual scales in degrees and mils. It is equipped with a folding sighting lid with a vertical hairline, a rear sight with a magnifying prismatic lens, and a thumb loop. The third is a lensatic compass with a black-finished body and brass-tone accents. The rotating dial features cardinal directions marked as N, O, S, and W, with the O indicating Ost (East), suggesting a continental European origin. This compass includes a knurled brass-tone bezel, a hinged sighting lid, and a gold-tone wire thumb loop.