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Accession Number
NAM.1979-06-129-1
Description
NCO’s pace stick, 1890 (c) Made by Potter, Aldershot, White wood with an ivory head; split up the middle with one half fastening to the other by a hinge; when open the angle of spread can by regulated by a hinged bar set into the inside if one surface; it has seven slots which are impressed with numbers that indicate the distance from point to point at certain angles, and therefore the length of pace; fastens together by sliding mushroom studs and a brass ferrule; has no military markings.
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