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Read more about the article Rotring Techniker-Zirkel II: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the drawing board

Rotring Techniker-Zirkel II: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the drawing board

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:14 October 2021
  • Post category:Compasses/Drawing instruments/Rotring

The name Rotring will forever be synonymous with the tubular technical pens on which their business was built, so it easy to forget that they were also highly regarded for…

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Read more about the article An English Lotter?

An English Lotter?

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:24 September 2021
  • Post category:Compasses/Drawing instruments
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The other day I broke my own rule of not buying any more of those turn of the century imported student-quality sets sold in vast quantities, primarily by Jackson Brothers, but…

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Read more about the article Galileo! Galileo!

Galileo! Galileo!

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:1 June 2021
  • Post category:Compasses/Drawing instruments
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Not to be confused with Galileo's compass, the Staedtler Galileo could be considered one of the last radical redesigns of the modern compass, literally turning the usual fine-adjustment spindle concept…

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Read more about the article Philden-Coyne Students’ No. 1 geometry set

Philden-Coyne Students’ No. 1 geometry set

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:28 May 2021
  • Post category:Drawing instruments/School
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School geometry sets have always been tangential to my main interest in professional drawing instruments, but occasionally something odd will catch my eye. This particular set attracted no attention on…

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Read more about the article Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:21 March 2021
  • Post category:Rulers
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When it comes to patented rulers, it's difficult to concieve of anything more basic than this particular example. It consists simply of a pentagonal section ebonised rod with the end…

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Read more about the article EngSoc

EngSoc

  • Post author:Alan Williams
  • Post published:12 March 2021
  • Post category:Compasses/Drawing instruments
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Today's featured set is a very nice quality wallet case originally retailed by the University of Toronto Engineering Society. It was interesting to discover that this society still exists today,…

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