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THBAntique Dring & Fage Wooden Slide Ruler With Bone Middle Insert
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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About Auction
LiveAug 25, 2024
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a great collection of sterling silver, 18th and 19th century furniture, a lifetime collection of fantastic estate jewelry, Asian antiquities, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Antique Dring & Fage Wooden Slide Ruler With Bone Middle Insert. Over the 19th and much of the 20th Centuries the slide rule was the primary instrument for calculation used in trading and engineering. Although originally invented in the 17th Century, and widely used for gauging (or estimating the quantities of certain products, such as alcoholic spirits), it took until around 1850 for the slide rule to become generally popular.
Size: 12 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 in.
#2942 #14 .
In 1784 instrument and glassmaker John Dring opened a company in Walworth, a district of South London. Over the next six years he developed as a brassmaker as well, particularly while creating items for a businessman named William Fage. In 1790 Dring took over another business founded by John Clarke, the father of his son-in-law, and brought Fage on to handle the load. They created Dring & Fage, becoming the primary manufacturers of hydrometers and mathematical instruments in the capital, as well as the saccharometer, which Clarke had invented. These instruments were primarily used for excise purposes, especially measuring the strength of alcohol. The company moved locations several times, with 11 different addresses over their entire history. By 1850 the company, still operating under the same name, was owned by Edward Hall and Edward Jenkin, who were appointed Hydrometer and Saccharometer Makers to the Board of Inland Revenue. The business then passed to Hall’s daughter Julia and her husband Alfred Jones in the late 19th Century, and from them to Edward Jones. In 1940 the company became Dring & Fage Ltd, and continued to trade at least into the 1960s, although it is unclear exactly when the company finally went out of business.
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BIDDER MUST ARRANGE THEIR OWN SHIPPING. Although SEA will NOT arrange shipping for you, we do recommend our preferred shipper Premier Shipping & Crating at info@premiershipment.com You MUST email them, please DO NOT CALLl. If you'd like to compare shipping quotes or need more options, feel free to contact any local Sarasota shippers. You can email any one of the shippers below as well. Be sure to include the lot(s) you won and address you would like it shipped to. Brennan with The UPS Store #0089 - 941-413-5998 - Store0089@theupsstore.com AK with The UPS Store #2689 - 941-954-4575 - Store2689@theupsstore.com Steve with The UPS Store #4074 - 941-358-7022 - Store4074@theupsstore.com Everett with PakMail - 941-751-2070 - paktara266@gmail.com
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- Size
12 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 in.
