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The precision measuring compasses found among the items reveal the careful, deliberate work required to plot distances across unforgiving charts.

The small compass rose, incised onto a wooden fob, reflects the essential tools that were as familiar to the day-to-day work of a merchant as they were to a sailor at sea.

The precision measuring compasses found among the items reveal the careful, deliberate work required to plot distances across unforgiving charts.