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Elliott’s Great Newport Street proportional dividers: when German silver was still German

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:18 January 2026
  • Post category:Dividers/Drawing instruments
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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…

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