Posted 11 years ago
battlegear
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Captain Frank Osborne Creagh-Osborne, Royal Navy, (1867/1943) was Superintendent of Compasses with the British Admiralty and inventor.
His various inventions were built by H. Hughes & Son Ltd, Dent & Co & Johnson Ltd, Sperry Gyroscopes Co., etc.
There exist two versions of a sturdy and heavy LENSATIC marching compass made by SPERRY GYROSCOPE Co. BROOKLYN N.Y.
the back of this compass is marked:
U.S. E.D.
CREAGH - OSBORNE
MARCHING COMPASS
MK VII MOD. E.
SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO. , BROOKLYN. N.Y.
I'm really liking this series on compasses
Thanks Chrisnp, most of my compasses all date from the WW1 era through the Vietnam War era, my newest compass is dated Mar 1975 just one month before the Fall of Saigon.