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your-other-right!

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Any ideas?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Mystery-Survey-Marker-E-A-Railroad-LOOK-UNIQUE-What-is-it-/150912433491?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item232314fd53

Posted : October 2, 2012 6:49 am

nate-the-surveyor

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Maybe somebody took the compass off a ship, and recycled it?

Posted : October 2, 2012 6:52 am

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Mystery shmystery. I've got a dozen of 'em out in the shed somewhere. They make great overgrown paper weights for holding down plastic tarps and such.

Posted : October 2, 2012 8:33 am

m & h taylor

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Could it have been installed somewhere so that the rose was aligned with astro north, and anybody who wanted to could look at the needle for the local declination?

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Posted : October 2, 2012 11:21 pm

m & h taylor

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Or is it a navigation aid used by the Eastern and Australian Steamship Co.?

Henry

Posted : October 2, 2012 11:38 pm

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