B62-457. SURVEYING TRANSIT. Wm E. Stieren. Brass transit, compass has silvered dial and 4-1/2" needle, engraved "Wm. E. Stieren, Maker, Pittsburgh, Pa, No. 118"; five pointed star at north. A frame, 6-1/2" high, no vertical circle. No striding level on telescope and one level on the base is dry. In original box with sunshade. Stieren was born in Prussia and immigrated to Pittsburgh in 1863, where he worked as an optician and instrument maker through 1888. Good+ 300-600