Stylus

ca. 1770 – 1820

A stylus was used to copy maps. By placing the point of a stylus on a map and tracing it, the stylus would cut a line and make a stencil of the map to be copied.

Iron, brass. L 5.6, Dia 0.5 cm
The George C. Neumann Collection,
Valley Forge National Historical Park, VAFO 1812