Antique Scientific Instruments

MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone

MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone
MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone

MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone

The lodestone is held between top and bottom silver mounts with beautifully intricate, pierced lappet borders. The lower border providing two projecting iron poles onto which a needle would have been rubbed.


MID Seventeenth Century Silver Mounted Mariners Lodestone