In excellent condition and full working order
continuing to supply the East India Company until 1838
and the Francis Barker catalogues of 1909 and 1926
it also includes several interesting advertisements for officers trench equipment
Steward catalogue was listing much more modern looking chronographs and stopwatches
Kelvin & James White Ltd, Barker 'RGS' Compass c.1904 Troughton & Simms In excellent condition and fullA rare variant of the Francis Barker & Son RGS type prismatic compass, dating from c. 1904. Although there are no maker's marks, this is a well known Barker design which the company supplied to several prominent scientific instrument retailers, including Negretti & Zambra, London, Kelvin & James White, Glasgow, and Davidson & Regenstreif, Cairo. The compass featured in the 1909 Negretti & Zambra catalogue, where it was described as 'Prismatic Compass,