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LOT 2136
British Nautical Wind Speed Ventimeter in Tube
MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 1/8 in. (102 grams total, 20.8 cm).
Plastic hand-held wind speed and direction indicator in original cardboard tube with printed instructions and scales. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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