Let's see your Magnetic compass

[Ultradog MN]

Was going to post this on Tools of Japan thread but then thought it's more General than that.
I Saw this tool up at hunting camp today. It's been there for years and I rarely give it any thought. We're real friendly with our neighbors but each side will occasionally "walk the line" and flag the trees with tape.
Best when you can do it with a couple of youngsters. Train them on a compass and throw in a little magnetism while you're at it. Then have them run ahead and "hold the tree" we sighted on.
Not as many kids around anymore tho.
I looked on ebay and found a few like this one.
About $20.
They have some nicer ones there too.
$45 for a brass one. Same style and brand but I didn't bite.
Anyone here collect compasses?
I'm thinking there might be some who do. Maybe yours sits on its original binnacle and is valuable as heck....
Or you have Thomas Jefferson's own compass or some that survived the wars.
Anyway...
Compasses are great tools and I don't remember seeing them talked about much here.
So let's see yours.
And No, the app on your darned phone doesn't count.
Thanks

 

[zimman]

I have a few. We used to have orienteering contest at work. (Surveying Firm) I won a few and they were pissed because I was a Draftsman not a surveyor. Then I told them I was an Eagle Scout. LOL
Zim

 

[rustyzman]

My two main compasses.

The Silva Ranger is an old unit that I was given by my neighbor from during his outdoorsman days up to the 1960's maybe?. No idea when it was made but it is a great compass. I carry and use that one in my hiking pack. A favorite.

The other is a US Military M2 artillery compass. Graduated in mils. Very nice, and very sensitive with a nice clinometer on it (shot the grade of my backyard for the drain tile with it) and a nice circular level. It's a larger, heavy unit.

 

[four.cycle]

WWII vintage compass
No idea who "Salois" of the 116 Medical Corps was.
My father decorated it one afternoon waiting for a fellow deer hunter up on the Toats Coulee near Chopaka Mountain.

I have a Silva Ranger as well - belonged to my late step-father, who was a timber cruiser for a local mill. I'll have to get a photo of it.

 

[RalphInCA]

You may have just ignited my next hobby.

Collecting compasses would be fun.

I was pretty good at using a compass and orienteering back in my Boy Scout days.

Can you still get topographical maps? Or has everything gone digital?

 

[545_days]

I had an inexpensive pocket watch style compass when I was in the Boy Scouts. Quality control was obviously not great because they had painted the wrong end of the needle, so it pointed south.

I need to find it and post a photo alongside my other compasses.

 

[545_days]

And yes, you can still buy topographic maps from USGS.

 

[CraigStu]

You want a picture of my cell phone?

 

[Lumpy102]

I have this one, all brass, marked Marble Arms & Mfg. I believe it belonged to my grandfathers brother. they grew up in Winnipeg MB and were active outdoorsmen/hunters in the 1920s