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D. van den Bosch

Decimal Scale

Rotterdam, 1821

Object data

white alloy (probably nickel silver), wood, brass and cloth

height 1.5 cm × width 16 cm × depth 6.2 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, on the scale: Marine / Schaal van 1 Duim op den Duim / [scale] / D.V.D. BOSCH ƒ: ROT: [scale]
  • label, on the lid: 858 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-858

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

White metal scale of 100 mm, one to one, for drawing, in a wooden box lined with green cloth.

The Netherlands adopted the metric and decimal system in 1820.

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'D. van den Bosch, Decimal Scale, Rotterdam, 1821', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244672

(accessed 20 April 2024 05:52:43).

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