Description and Notes:
This is an original Lotter drawing set which bears the article number of 202 a.b.TV. It contains the ingenuously designed and highly sought after precision parallel compass. The detailed official history and chronicles of the company is yet to be found. Nevertheless the following information was provided by a member of the Drawing Instruments Group of Yahoo:
"'Lotter' was founded in 1896 in Wilhelmsdorf, Germany and was sold to Boden in 1980. It is also possible that as founding year 1892 has to be claimed, dependent on the way Lotter and Boden parted in 1896. Since Boden was (and is) situated in Emskirchen, a few kilometers from Wilhelmsdorf, it is feasible that Boden just parted with the mutual company in Wilhelmsdorf and started his own factory in Emskirchen."
According to another member of the group, who bought the first set as a trainee (From a Dutch Engineering school) in Solingen, Germany in 1955, the production of the parallel set should be started no later than 1952.
