Oliver Vanasdal's Wonderful Homemade Working Compass, 1905 Barbour's flax used to hold them up

used to hold them up and make them dance

Cocomalt was a powdered drink additive

I am not quite sure whether to call this a button or a sign or a what--it is celluloid like a button

The liner circling the interior of the neck

Oliver Vanasdal's Wonderful Homemade Working Compass, 1905 Barbour's flax used to hold them upI am very tempted to keep this one, such an excellent object, and how often does one come across an old handmade compass? (Pretty much never in my experience.) Wonderfully carved wooden perimeter rim, not quite regular, which was nailed down over glass to close up the case. The dial and needle look to be cut of tin, with hand drawn compass rose (looks like very dark graphite to me) and N and S stamped into the needle. And then on the back, its maker,