Brass furniture pull with close-up of the name of the back of one of the pulls. Very few pulls were marked and the origin of these has not been positively established. A brass founder named S. Parker did work in the Philadelphia area in the eighteenth century. Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg
From explanation next the compass in picture: "Surveyors compass used by Caleb Ammidown in 1796 to survey the "Poll" Parish in Southbridge. The compass was made by Peregrine White, a Clockmaker and Silversmith of Woodstock."