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Surveying Instruments & Calculating Devices

Below are examples of some of the most interesting and important surveying instrument and calculation related pieces we have sold since we introduced this webpage over 20 years ago.  It does not represent all of our sales of these type antiques, but rather a select cross-section reflecting the level, caliber of,  and types of antiques that we sell or are seeking to help you sell.  If you have similar scientific related antiques and collectibles you want to sell please contact us at AntiqBuyer@gmail.com.

To see examples of similar antiques that we currently have for sale please go to our sister site at www.Patented-Antiques.com and visit the numerous sale pages you will find there. 

Gurley Transits

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• An Early A Frame  W.  & L. E. Gurley  Surveyor's Transit    SOLD
• Gurley #12 Engineer's Transit     SOLD
• Several W. & L.  E. Gurley #100 Recon Transits    SOLD
• Gurley #30 Solar Transit w/ Burt Solar Attachment     SOLD
• W. & L.  E. Gurley Solar Transit w/ Burt Solar Attachment & Mining Scope     SOLD
• W. & L.  E. Gurley #17 Engineer's Solar Transit w/ Burt Attachment     SOLD
• Gurley #30 Solar Transit w/ Set up for Burt Solar Attachment     SOLD
• Gurley Transit WWII Era     SOLD
• #16 Gurley Transit     SOLD
• #76 W. & L. E. Gurley A Frame Transit      SOLD
• Gurley #28 Light Mountain Size Transit     SOLD
• Early A Frame #12 Gurley Transit     SOLD
• Small Expedition Size Gurley Transit w/ Double Maker Marks     SOLD!
• Highway Dept. Gurley Transit w/ Box     SOLD!
• W. & L. E. Gurley Engineers / Surveyor's Transit w/ Double Mark F. W. Lincoln Jr. / Boston Mass      SOLD!
• 1880's W. & L. E. Gurley Engineer's Transit w/ Theodolite Axis      SOLD!
• Post WWII Gurley Transit w/ Box     SOLD!
• W. & L. E. Gurley Transit w/ Optical Plummet     SOLD!
• Post WWII Gurley Alidade w/ Box     SOLD!
• W. & L. E. Gurley #30 Light Mountain Transit Equipped w/ Burt Solar Attachment & #161 Top Mount Auxiliary Mining Scope     SOLD!
• AND More!!      SOLD!

Gurley Compasses

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• W. & L. E. Gurley #285 Pocket Railroad Compass w/ Tripod    SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley # 217 Railroad Surveying Vernier Compass    SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Solar Compass w/ Aux. Scope    SOLD 
• W. & L. E. Gurley Pocket Railroad Surveying Compass w/ Aux. Scope    SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Pocket Railroad Surveying Compass    SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley # 232 Surveying Compass  SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Vernier Surveying Compass   SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Compass   SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley & Queen Double Marked Surveyors Compass   SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Railroad Double Vernier Compasss   SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Railroad Compass with Auxiliary Scope   SOLD 
• W. & L. E. Gurley Railroad Compass with Auxiliary Scope   SOLD
• Gurley #318 Small Plain Sighting Compass w/ Box & Staff Fitting     SOLD!!
• Unmarked Gurley #316 Plain Compass in Wooden Box     SOLD!!
• Gurley Miner's Compass / Dipping Needle     SOLD!!

Gurley Surveying Levels

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• W. & L. E. Gurley 24" Engineers Y Level      SOLD
• Gurley 22" Engineers Y Level      SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley 20" Engineers Y Level      SOLD
• Gurley 18" Dumpy Level     SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley Explorer Size Level      SOLD
• Gurley # 376 Wye Level  Level      SOLD
• Early Gurley Engineer's  Level w/ Top Mount Level     SOLD
• Gurley Wye or Builders Level    SOLD

K & E  Transits & Surveying Instruments

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• K & E  #5127 Builders Transit  w/o 2 Compass      SOLD
• K & E  #5129 Preliminary  Survey Transit from 1908 w/ 2 Tone Finish      SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser  #5165  Locating Transit    SOLD
• K & E  #5060  Engineers Transit     SOLD
• NOS K & E # 80 0200 Topographical Abney Level      SOLD
• K & E / Y & S (Young & Sons) Special Survey Transit       SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser Convertible Architects Level / Transit   SOLD
• 1920's K & E Engineers / Surveyor's Transit     SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser Paragon Transit    SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser Twisted Frame Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5093 Alidade       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5081 Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser Twisted Frame Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5076 Light Mountain Transit w/ Saegmuller Solar Attachment       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5077 Light Mountain Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5085 Engineers Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser Paragon Model # 74-0000 Engineers Transit       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser c. 1910 Twisted Frame Solar Transit w/Saegmuller Solar Attachment in Original Box       SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 5081 1/2 C Mining Transit w/ Auxiliary Scope       SOLD

Antique & Vintage Surveying Transits
by Buff  / Berger / Dietzgen / Heller & Brightly
Lietz / Fauth / Sala & Others

Misc. Transits                Solar & Mining 

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• Buff & Berger # 11 Theodolite / Transit     SOLD
• Negretti & Zambra Transit / Theodolite w/ Bottom Mount Half Circle     SOLD!
• H. S. Crocker San Francisco / Sacramento Surveyor's Transit     SOLD!
• C. L. Berger & Sons 1930's Engineer's Transit    SOLD
• Berger Transit    SOLD
• Buff & Buff Surveyor's / Engineers Transit    SOLD
• Buff & Buff  Engineer's Transit     SOLD
• Buff & Berger #2 Light Mountain Size Transit Serial # 175     SOLD!
• Buff & Buff Small Expedition Size Transit     SOLD!
• Buff & Berger Bevel Limb Transit     SOLD!
• Knox & Shain Philadelphia Maker Surveying Transit     SOLD!
• Sears / Craftsman Combination Transit / Level     SOLD
• Bostrom #4 Farm Level     SOLD
• Heller & Brightly Engineers Transit     SOLD!
• Lietz Mountaineers Transit      SOLD
• Bausch & Lomb Light Mountain Transit      SOLD
• Heller & Brightly 1870's Surveyors Transit     SOLD
• John Zeiser St Louis Transit Not Listed in Smarts!     SOLD
• Dietzgen Engineer's Transit      SOLD
• B. L. Makepeace Loxo Combination Transit / Level     SOLD
• William Stackpole Surveyors / Engineers Transit     SOLD
• Fauth & Co. Expedition Size Transit    SOLD
• A. Lietz of San Francisco Preliminary / Light Mountain Size "Universal Jr." Transit     SOLD
• John Roach Surveying Transit     SOLD
• Craftsman Farm Level / Transit      SOLD!
• Bostrom Level / Transit    SOLD
• Fennel / Kassel Level / Builders Transit    SOLD
• Hildebrand Freiberg Surveyors / Engineers Theodolite / Transit / Japanese WWII    SOLD

 Solar & Mining Instruments

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• Fauth Co. Solar Transit w/ Saegmuller Solar Attachment     SOLD!
• Buff & Buff Mfg. Co. Mining Transit w/ Box & Tripod     SOLD
• Buff Solar Transit w/ Smith Patent Solar Attachment in Original Box    SOLD 
• C. L. Berger & Sons Solar Transit w/ Pearson's Patent Solar Attachment     SOLD!
• C. L. Berger & Sons 1930's Mining Transit w/ Auxiliary Scope    SOLD
• Berger Mining Transit w/ Aux. Mining Scope Attachment     SOLD
• Buff & Buff Mining Transit w/ Secondary Scope      SOLD!
• J. C. Sala Transit w/ Saegmuller Solar Attachment Mount      SOLD!
• Warren Knight "Sterling" Solar Transit w/ Saegmuller Solar Attachment      SOLD!
• Young & Sons Solar Transit with Smith Patent Telescopic Solar Attachment in Original Box     SOLD!
• Heller & Brightly Mining Transit     SOLD
• Sala San Francisco Maker Engineer's Solar Transit    SOLD
• Dietzgen Transit w/ Aux. Mining Scope Attachment & Scope w/ Setup for Solar Attachment      SOLD 
• Fauth & Co. Solar Transit w/ George Saegmuller Solar Attachment     SOLD
• Heller & Brightly Mining Transit w/ Auxiliary Scope & Tripod     SOLD
• Cary / London Mining Theodolite / Transit w/ Aux. Oil Wick Light     SOLD
• Heitzler Instrument Co. Transit Serial #52 Marked #1 Solar w/ 1911 Patent    SOLD
• William Ainsworth & Sons of Denver Colorado Mining Transit    SOLD
• Sala Transit w/ Burt Style Solar Attachment    SOLD
• A. Lietz Aluminum Solar Transit w/ Saegmuller Solar Attachment     SOLD!
• P & R Wittstock / Berlin "Scott's" Mine Tachymeter / Mining Transit    SOLD

Misc. Surveying Levels & Alidades

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• A Lietz Co. Serial #291 Aluminum Precision Level     SOLD
• T. Street Maker Commercial Road Lambeth English Surveyor's Precise Level w/ Compass     SOLD
• Lietz Convertible Transit / Level     SOLD
• Bradshaw Patent Sighting Level      SOLD 
• Stackpole Wye Level    SOLD
• Berger 20" Wye Level    SOLD
• Buff & Berger Precise Level     SOLD
• K & E 5120 Railroad Wye Level    SOLD
• Lietz Convertible Transit / Level      SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser Architects Level w/ Compass     SOLD
• A. Lietz Co San Francisco Alidade / Box    SOLD
• Zeiss / Jena NI 007 Precise Automatic Level    SOLD
• Wild Heerbrug N-2 Automatic Level    SOLD
• Buff & Berger High Post Alidade    SOLD
• 2 K & E Dip / Dipping Compasses     SOLD
• 1960's Gurley Dumpy Level      SOLD
• Several More Alidades      SOLD

Surveying Compasses

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• Wm. J. Young Solar Compass w/ Leveling Head & Tripod       SOLD
• Adolph Tiensch of Memphis Tenn. Surveying Compass       SOLD
• D. T. Lillie & Co. New Orleans Surveying Compass       SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley # 276 Pocket Solar Compass       SOLD
• Edmund Draper Surveyor's Compass       SOLD
• John Roach Mining Compass w/ Vernier & Clinometer Sighting Feature       SOLD
• Levi Colton Surveyor's Compass       SOLD
• Roach & Warner Pre Civil War Era Surveying Compass     SOLD  
• Gregg & Rupp  Surveyor's Compass       SOLD
• Frye & Shaw Pre Civil War Era Surveying Compass     SOLD
• Young Surveying Compass w/ Aux. Scope     SOLD
• Randolph Patent Surveying Compass W/ Telescope  SOLD 
• K & E Foresters Compass     SOLD
• Robert Shaw Surveyor's Compass     SOLD
• Randolph Patent Surveying Compass     SOLD
• K & E #5293 Miners Compass / Dipping Compass     SOLD
• Lewis Michael 18th Century Surveying Compass     SOLD
• W. & L. E. Gurley # 276 Pocket Solar Compass     SOLD
• Samuel Thaxter & Sons Survey Compass     SOLD
• Andrew Meneely Vernier Surveying Compass in Period Box     SOLD
• James Queen Survey Compass     SOLD
• James Reed Surveyor's Compass     SOLD
• Benjamin Rittenhouse Surveying Compass w/ Box     SOLD

Misc Surveying Instruments

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• J. Hale Patent 1885 Surveying Instrument / Circumferentor      SOLD
• Gurley Aluminum Field Scale      SOLD
• Early Wayweiser      SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser Simplex Section Liner     SOLD
• Dollond / London 45" Leather Barrel Telescope w Queen Anne Brass Folding Tripod Base     SOLD
• J. Roach Surface Gauge         SOLD
• Gurley Auxiliary Scope for Surveying Compass         SOLD
• Articulated Magnifier for Surveying Instrument          SOLD
• 8" Right Angle Proportional Dividers         SOLD 
• Pair of Heliographs         SOLD
• Gordon's 1859 Patent Goniometer / Protractor     SOLD
• Marine Navigation Octant / Sextant    SOLD 
• Buff & Berger of Boston Anemometer in Wooden Box       SOLD
• Buff & Berger of Boston High Post Alidade in Wooden Box       SOLD
• K & E Planimeter    SOLD
• K & E #5334 Compass    SOLD
• Brunton Compass     SOLD
• Drafting Set w/ Ivory Handles    SOLD
• Large Drafting Set in Mahogany Box Dated 1901     SOLD
• K & E  Abney w/ Vernier in Leather Case     SOLD!
• Keuffel & Esser #4236 Planimeter       SOLD
• Large Drafting Set in Mahogany Box Dated 1901     SOLD
• Dietzgen Dotting Set w/ 6 Wheels     SOLD
• Lietz Surveyors Plane Table     SOLD
• Circle Frame Sextant / Octant / Quadrant w/ Several Scopes     SOLD  
• Lietz #1805 Beam Compass     SOLD
• 19th Century English Drafting Set in Sharkskin / Shagreen Case     SOLD
• Brown & Sharpe #510 Drafting Protractor in Leatherette Covered Wooden Case     SOLD
• Improved Willis Planimeter     SOLD
• Buff & Buff Saegmuller Type #1 Solar Attachment in Original Box     SOLD
• Dietzgen Saegmuller Type Solar Attachment     SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser / K& E # 5368 - 1 Pocket Transit (after Brunton)     SOLD

Plumb Bobs / Tripods & Survey Chains

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• Keuffel & Esser / K & E 5" Compensated Aneroid Barometer w/ Thermometer     SOLD
• J. C. Sala SF Long Neck / Wide Shoulder Brass Plumb Bob     SOLD
• Dietzgen Internal Reel Brass Plumb Bob     SOLD
• Gimbaled Brass Mining Plummet     SOLD
• Servco Reel in Top Plumb Bob     SOLD
• Stanley #5 Cast Iron Plumb Bob w/ Reel     SOLD
• Plumb Barbara / Brandi     SOLD 
• K & E 100' Surveyor's Chain     SOLD
• Gurley 66' Surveyor's Chain     SOLD
• Numerous Surveyor's / Surveying Chains     SOLD
• Fixed & Collapsible Leg Tripods     SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser #12 66' Surveyors Chain     SOLD
• Chesterman, Gurley & Other Surveying Chains     SOLD
• Stackpole Precise Surveyor's Chain w/ Level & Scale  SOLD
• Berger & Sons Auxiliary Eyepiece for Davis Solar Attachment w/ Colored Glass Solar Screen, Prism & Peephole  SOLD
• Small Johnson Head Plane Table Tripod   SOLD
• Many Plumb Bobs     SOLD

Keuffel & Esser K & E
Slide Rules & Calculators

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• The New York Automatic Lightning Calculator /Automatic Arithmeticer by John Schmidt & Co. AKA K&E / Keuffel & Esser #1704 / Thatcher Patent Slide Rule / Calculator Serial # 704    SOLD
• Serial # 1444 Keuffel & Esser #4012 Thacher / Thatcher Calculating Slide Rule     SOLD
• K & E Peerless Calculator    SOLD
• K & E 4012 Thatcher  Calculator    SOLD
• Several More K & E 4012 Thatcher / Thacher  Calculators    SOLD 
• K & E 4015 Webb's Stadia Rule / Calculator     SOLD
• K & E 4018 Pocket Watch Calculator    SOLD
• K & E 4017 Sperry Calculator    SOLD
• Unusual #4110 Slide Rule   SOLD
• K & E # 68-1100 Deci-lon Slide Rule  in Original Box w/ Book    SOLD
• K & E # 68-1130 Deci-lon 5" Slide Rule in Case  SOLD
• K & E  <4031>  5" Sliderule w/ Frameless Cursor    SOLD
• K&E 4160 Chemists Rule  Case & Box  SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser <N-4096> Desktop w/ Stand SlideRule     SOLD
• K & E  <4031> 5" Slide Rule    SOLD
• K & E <4053-2> Slide Rule 8"    SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser 4088-3 w/ Column Cursor   SOLD
• K & E 4088-5  20 inch Slideruler    SOLD
• K & E 4095-3  Merchants Slide Rule    SOLD
• K& E / Keuffel & Esser 4088-2 SM Slide Rule    SOLD
• K & E 4081-3 or 68-1220       SOLD
• #4061 T 5" Duplex Slide Rule w/ Trig Scales and Clamshell Cursor   SOLD
• #4133 Roylance Electrical Slide Rule in Box   SOLD
• K & E N 4088-3 12" Slide Rule w Column Cursor   SOLD
• K& E / Keuffel & Esser 4045 16 Inch Slide Rule    SOLD
• K & E #68 - 1210 Log Log Duplex Slide Rule    SOLD
• K & E #68 - 1215 Slide Rule    SOLD
• K & E 4070 Slide Rule    SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser Reymond Leather Calculator    SOLD
• #4061 T 5" Duplex Slide Rule w/ Trig Scales and Clamshell Cursor    SOLD
• K & E 68-1749 (4096) 20" Desk Top Slide Rule w/ Hard Case    SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser 4053-5 20" Slide Rule w/ Leather Case Box & Book    SOLD
• K & E / Keuffel & Esser # 4100 Stadia Rule w/ Magnifier & Hump Leather Case & Box    SOLD
• Keuffel & Esser / K & E 68 1400 ANALON Slide Rule w/ Leather Case    SOLD
• AND MANY MORE!!

Antique
Slide Rules / Mechanical Adders & Calculators

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• Several Stanley / Fuller Spiral Calculators     SOLD
• Palmers Patent Telegraphic Computing Scales      SOLD
• Poor's Line of Position Nautical Positioning Calculator       SOLD
• The Smallwood Patented Adder / Calculator     SOLD
• Early Otis King Pocket Calculator w/ Scale #s 423 &414    SOLD SOLD
• Herring Calculator     SOLD
• Addizionatrice Simplicitas Italian 9 Dial Adder     SOLD
• Fowler Pocket Watch Style Type H Calculator     SOLD
• Addometer / Patent Applied For     SOLD
• Serial # 109 Stanley / Fuller Spiral Calculator     SOLD
• Gordon's Addometer / Calculator    SOLD
• Loga Drum Calculator / Sliderule    SOLD
• The Locke Adder/ calculator    SOLD
• The Jeffers Calculator     SOLD
• The Universal Adder Patented July 15th 1890    SOLD
• "Simplicitas" Addizonartrice    SOLD
• The Calcumeter    SOLD
• Percentage Calculator    SOLD
• 1st Model Webb Patent Adder    SOLD
• 1st Model Wood Case Comptometer / Adding Machine w/ Fractional Keys    SOLD
• The Rapid" Calculator / Adder    SOLD
• "Small" Pocket Calculator / Slide Rule    SOLD
• Marchant Calculator    SOLD
• 1st Model Wooden Case "ShoeBox" Comptometer Adder / Calculator    SOLD
• Calculator Pen    SOLD
• The Calculus Calculator    SOLD
• Comptator Calculator / Adder    SOLD
• Burroughs Glass Side Adding Machine / Calculator
• A. Burkhardt Type A Arithmometer    SOLD
• Odhner Style Mechanical Calculator    SOLD
• Walther Calculator    SOLD
• Marchant Calculator    SOLD

Curta Calculators

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• Curta Type 1 Calculator     SOLD
• Several Curta Calculators both Type 1 & Type 2 Models     SOLD
• Type 2 Curta in Case with Unusual Leather Field Case  Super!!    SOLD

More Slide Rules & Calculators

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• Pickett Model 6-T Statistical Quality Control      SOLD
• Faber Castell 2/83 N in Plastic Case   SOLD
• Early 12" Wooden Sector     SOLD
• Aristo-Commerz  #965 Nice       SOLD!
• Lafayette # 98-70129 Vectorlog Slide Rule SOLD
• Rechenschieber Nestler Mecanica 0260 Slide Rule      SOLD
• Jason #803 by Sun Hemmi NOS         SOLD!  
• Eastman Kodak X-Ray Exposure Rule   SOLD
• Post 1460 Versalog Slide Rule   SOLD
• Aristo Darmstadt Slide Rule 867 U   SOLD
• A. W. Faber #367 Slide Rule w/ Keeper Cursor   SOLD
• Fowler Long Scale Slide Rule / Calculator   SOLD
• Ross Meridiograph   SOLD
• Pickett N 300 T Slide Rule in Case w/ Box   SOLD
• Pickett #109 ES Circular Slide Rule   SOLD
• Lafayette Deci Log 681 Slide Rule   SOLD
• More Stick Slide Rules   SOLD

Because of the volume of these sales we have several topic-specific Sales Archive Pages that can be entered through the links provided.