To-morrow 



will be SOLD, by 



Public Vendue, 



At 



WARREN'S 



Auction Room, 



A VARIETY of articles, viz. Nails, Bar Lead, Glass 

 Pewter, Buttons, Buckles, Chairs, Stands, &c, &c, &c. 



*** The SALE to begin at 10 o'Clock, A.M. 



No other notices of public sales appeared in the Journal for the 

 next several months. The last notice of this period was another 

 announcement of a sale, which was published in the issue of May 

 30, 1786: 



Publick Vendue, 



At WARREN'S Auction Room, in PLYM- 

 OUTH: at Ten o'clock this morning. WILL 

 be Sold, a quantity of bar lead, boxes of glass, 

 6x8. English Shovels and Tongs, bridle- 

 Bits, and a variety of other articles of Hard- 

 Ware. Also, a few Anvils at private sale. 



Only one instrument signed by Warren is known to survive; 

 it is a wooden surveying compass (fig. 61) in the Streeter Collection 



Figure 61. — Wooden surveying compass made by Benjamin Warren (c.l740- 

 C.1800) of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and detail of the compass card. The 

 compass, made of cherry wood, is 12 in. long and has a diameter of 6 in. In 

 Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures, Yale University. 



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