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A BRASS PROTRACTOR
GEORGE ADAMS, LATE 18TH CENTURY
graduated around the circumference 0-360° and 360°-0 to ½°, signed to the cross-bar G Adams London, with ownership inscription to reverse D. Pratt.
6¾in. (17.3cm.) diameter

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George Adams junior (1750–1795), from the famous Adams family of scientific instrument makers, was the optician to the Prince of Wales (later George IV).

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