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A George III shagreen cased etui of silver mounted drawing instruments George Adams, London, late 18th century The tapered oblong shagreen veneered case with silver clasp button, hinge, collar mounts and caps to top and base, the interior enclosing two silver and steel compass dividers, interchangeable pen/pencil attachments, a silver folding sector signed G. Adams, London, a silver mounted steel parallel ruler and a silver ruler engraved with mathematical plotting and protractor scales signed G. Adams, No. 60 Fleet Street, London, (lacking two accessories) the case 18cm (7ins) high. George Adams senior is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as apprenticed to Thomas Heath gaining his Freedom of the Grocers’ Company in 1733. He worked from several addresses in and around Fleet Street, London until his death in 1772, these include Tycho Brahe's Head, 60 Fleet St. where the business was based from 1738. In 1760 Adams was appointed as Mathematical Instrument Maker to King George III for whom he supplied a vast range of apparatus including items for pneumatic and mechanical experimentation almost all of which survive in ‘The King George III Collection’ housed in the Science Museum, London. George Adams junior was apprenticed to and succeeded his father working as maker of a full range of instruments including globes from Tycho Brahe's Head, 60 Fleet St. 1772-95. He was succeeded by his widow, Hannah, before the premises was taken over by his brother, Dudley, in 1796. Condition report disclaimer