Superbow Sunday 2026
As Superbow Sunday rolls around once more (or should that be "bounces erratically"?) this year's edition is well deserving of the name Superbow XL - yes, you heard that right,…
Elliott’s Great Newport Street proportional dividers: when German silver was still German
Prompted by David Riches' recent find of an early Watkins & Hill proportional divider in nickel silver (aka German silver, aka electrum), I finally got around to writing about another unusual example…
Ruling pen multipacks
A recent discussion about Stanley's 20th-century "Perma" cases and their ruling pens reminded me of an uncommon four-pen set that I acquired as part of a lot of modern drawing instruments. At…
Unknown maker, date, country – pretty much everything!
"Assume nothing" is my usual mantra when buying off ebay, but occasionally I still make assumptions that turn out to be completely wrong. On this occasion I thought I knew…
Superbow Sunday 2025
Superbow Sunday is here again, and if there is one thing people like more than the event itself, it's the commercials. So what better way to celebrate the day than…
Three Brunel compasses
At long last I got around to photographing my motley crew of three cased Brunel compasses, primarily to compare details with another example of the type recently acquired by David Riches. I…
Ogle’s aphemetric compass: a mystery solved
A huge thanks to Robert Pilla of the Drawing Instruments group for helping me solve the mystery of my Elliott Bros dial dividers posted back in January. His reference to…
Höhnig’s square triangle
Interesting European drawing instruments have been a bit thin on the ground here in the UK over the last couple of years, but occasionally something unexpected still turns up. In…
Snappy Canada Day!
As it is once again Canada Day, I dug around in my collection for something suitably Canadian to mark the occasion. As mentioned previously, Canada was not especially known for…
You say Golmet, I say Golmet
As today is St David's Day, the traditional feast day of the patron saint of Wales, I decided to showcase a drawing instrument that was actually manufactured in Wales. The…
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