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  • Koch, Huxhold & Hannemann (KHH) - made surprising System Korte slide rule that does addition & subtraction
  • Smallwood Folding Shoe Sizing Stick in metric for French shoe sizes 10-48 in increments of a Paris point (⅔ cm)
  • Lawrence MIT Antenna slide rule for radar antenna performance was classified during WWII by UK & US governments
  • ALRO-made ruler unusually with a cursor for analysing ECG printouts of the cardiac Sinus Rhythms
  • Hatters Gauge - for measuring the size of a hat but unusually calibrated in metric & imperial
  • Glovers Rule - for measuring the length of a glove in imperial inches
  • Unusual non-logarithmic QR 41 military model by Dennert & Pape (D&P) for training anti-aircraft gunners
  • Colour combinations slide rule made by German WH-Wohnen for Interior Designers
  • Professor Fuller’s Drum Calculator from 1878 - made by W.F. Stanley
  • Modern wristwatch with slide rule bezel calculator made by German maker Kienzle
  • Ruxton made Multi-Vider combined drop-lead pencil & slide rule
  • Rare Otis King Model N for Retail & Monetary with white scales (422 & 424) on a black background
  • Darnley’s Rotable Lightning Calculator/Pencil Case calculating aid
  • Makeba made Kombinator combination pencil & slide rule
  • Rare Carbic-made Fischer Calculator slide rule
  • Specialist slide rule for a national home cable radio broadcasting system offered in The Netherlands from 1930 to1970
  • Smallest drum (≈ 2.4m) made by renowned Swiss maker LOGA

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(NoName) Desktop Military wood/celluloid veneers

​Both non-standard scales folded & apart from NESTLER name in well no other markings

Nestler (NoName) Desktop Military
(NoName) Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

Railway track scales + German silver screws + cm scale in well of stock + patent no. 173660 + table of conversion factors on back

(NoName) Enhanced Mannheim - early wood/celluloid veneers

Railway track scales + German silver screws + cm scale & 4 slits in well of stock + patent no. 164885 + table of conversion factors on back

Nestler (NoName) Enhanced Mannheim - early
(NoName) Enhanced Mannheim - export Pickworth wood/celluloid veneers

German silver screws + inch scale in well of stock + table of conversion factors compiled by C.N. Pickworth on back

(NoName) Mannheim wood

Unusually unmarked (pi mark = Nestler) & incised scales + table of conversion factors in English on back​

Nestler (NoName) Mannheim
0121 Pocket Darmstadt two-tone plastic

2 cursor windows in back

0123 Pocket Rietz 360 plastic

aku CMC printed on back + 2 cursor windows

0123 (Reitz S) Pocket Rietz 360 two-tone plastic

2 cursor windows in back​

0127 Pocket International Conversion two-tone plastic

primarily for imperial/metric conversions with many gauge marks on front face + WEATHERFORD printed on back + 2 cursor windows

Nestler 0127 Pocket International Conversion
0129 Polymath Pocket Log-Log plastic

OEM by FUJI but retailed through Hope Slide Rule Mfg. Co. - has big-brother 0291 sibling

Nestler 0129 Polymath Pocket
0137 Pocket Electro two-tone plastic

Unusually W & V scales on front face + 2 cursor windows in back ​

Nestler 0137 Pocket Electro two-tone
0203 Alpha Demonstration Rietz two-tone wood/painted

Instruction rule for model 0251 - Rietz layout but all scales on front face ​

Nestler 0203 Alpha Demonstration Rietz
0210 Darmstadt wood/celluloid veneers

Table of conversion factors & two cursor windows in back

Nestler 0210 Dramstadt
0215 Desktop Darmstadt 360° wood/celluloid veneers

tables of conversion factors on back

0218 Darmstadt plastic

Table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

0232 Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

​Late wooden model - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

0235 Desktop Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

tables of conversion factors on back

0238 Rietz two-tone plastic

Table of conversion factors & 2 cursor windows in back

0239 School Rietz two-tone palstic

Cheaper construction​ & possible OEM by Japanese Fuji + 2 cursor windows in back

0249 Elemath School Log-Log two-tone plastic

OEM by Japanese Fuji  but retailed through Hope Slide Rule Mfg. Co. ​

Nestler 0249 Elemath School Log-Log
0251 Alpha School Rietz two-tone plastic

Cheaper construction​ & possible OEM by Japanese Fuji  + “Half-duplex” layout with trig scales on back of closed frame stock - part of mini Secondary School series

0252 Beta School Technical two-tone plastic

Cheaper construction​ & possible OEM by FUJI - part of mini Secondary School series

Nestler 0252 Beta School Technical
0253 Gamma School Technical two-tone plastic

Cheaper construction​ & possible OEM by FUJI - part of mini Secondary School series

Nestler 0253 Gamma School Technical
0254 Delta School Technical/Log-Log two-tone plastic

Cheaper construction​ & possible OEM by FUJI - part of mini Secondary School series

Nestler 0254 Delta School Technical/Log-Log
0260 Machining Time wood/celluloid veneers

Table of guidelines for turning speeds + 2 cursor windows in back

Nestler 0260 Machining Time
0270 Technical long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

Table of constants on back + bigger sibling 0275

Nestler 0270 Technical long-scale
0275 Desktop Technical long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

Tables of conversion factors + 2 cursor windows in back - long scales (folded @ Pi) & desktop model meant accuracy of 0.03% + smaller sibling 0270

Nestler 0275 Desktop Technical long-scale
0291 Polymath-Duplex Technical/Log-Log plastic

 OEM by FUJI but retailed through Hope Slide Rule Mfg. Co. - see also smaller 0129 sibling

Nestler 0291 Polymath-Duplex Technical/Log-Log
0292 Multimath-Duplex Technical/Log-Log two-tone plastic Nestler 0292 Multimath-Duplex Technical/Log-Log
0320 Petroleum two-tone - System Dr. Schmeling metal/plastic

​Specially marketed to Petroleum Industry for crude oil related calculations

Nestler 0320 Petroleum - System Dr. Schmeling
0330 Chemical two-tone plastic

​Top 2 scales & top scale on back of slide = plethora of gauge marks = table of elements & molecular weights

Nestler 0330 Chemical
0370 Electro wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) - 2 cursor windows in back​ + bigger sibling 0375

Nestler 0370 Electro
0375 Desktop Electro wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) - table of conversion factors & 2 cursor windows in back​ + smaller sibling 0370

Nestler 0375 Desktop Electro
0408 Finance two-tone plastic Nestler 0408 Finance
0432 Reinforced Concrete - System Dr. Schaeffer wood/celluloid veneers

Stress factors 1200 & 1400kg/cm2 of iron on either side of slide

Nestler 0432 Reinforced Concrete - System Dr. Schaeffer
0440 Reinforced Concrete two-tone - System Maarschalk metal/plastic

​Designed by Dutchman M.C.M. van Maarschalkerwaart but Nestler felt his full surname was too long for the System accreditation & hence shortened it!

Nestler 0440 Reinforced Concrete - System Maarschalk
10 Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

​German sliver screws + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

11 (narrow) Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

extremely narrow & Lilliput-like footprint with no model/maker markings on rule + 2 cursor windows in back​

11 (ver. 1) Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

German silver screws + Table of conversion factors & 2 cursor windows in back

11D Pocket Darmstadt plastic

Broader than other in 11xx series​ 2 cursor windows in back

11E Pocket Enhanced Mannheim celluloid

orange/dirty-brown celluloid with 2 cursor windows in back

Nestler 11E Pocket Enhanced Mannheim
11M Pocket Enhanced Mannheim plastic

2 cursor windows in back​

11O Pocket Mannheim plastic

unnecessarily 2 cursor windows in back​

11R Pocket Rietz plastic

2 cursor windows in back

11ZE Pocket Electro celluloid

V & W scales in well of stock + 2 cursor windows in back

11ZM Pocket Enhanced Mannheim celluloid

2 cursor windows in back

11ZR Pocket Rietz celluloid

Model no. etc on back + 2 cursor windows

12 Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

cm & inch scale on back + 2 cursor windows

12a Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

unmarked but reseller, P. Trumel, in well of stock + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

12b Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows + unusual combination of magnifying cursor & extra tick marks emulates precision of 25cm model  

12c Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

17 Extra long Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

Unusual length + railway track scales + German silver screws + cm scale in well of stock

18 Desktop Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + tables of conversion factors on back

20/1 Kiel Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

Kiel name (like F-C 1/94) comes from being the model favoured by German Imperial Naval Academy & School Kiel  - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows​

21 Darmstadt wood/celluloid veneers

​Owned & used as a student by legendry Swiss collector Heinz Joss - 2 cursor windows in back

21a Desktop Darmstadt 360° wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + table of conversion factors on back

22 Extra long Pocket Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

23 Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

23a (A/R) Desktop Rietz - late wood/celluloid veneers

Unusual scale length​ - tables of conversion factors on back

23R Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well + table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

23R/3 Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

23R/3 Rietz - early wood/celluloid veneers

table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

24 Desktop Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + tables of conversion factors on back - ex Shell (B.P.M.)

24b Extra long Desktop Rietz long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

Not demonstration type but 10f only 4 engine-divided (only maker capable of desktops >50cm) + early production year from 1908-1911 style of company name - read more ....​

Nestler 24b Desktop Extra Rietz
24R Desktop Rietz - late wood/celluloid veneers

cm scale in well of stock + tables of conversion factors on back

24R/1 Extra long Desktop Rietz long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

Not demonstration type but 1 of only 4 engine-divided 100cm models (only maker capable of engine dividing desktops >50cm)​

Nestler 24R/1 Desktop Extra Rietz long-scale
26 Business & Machining wood/celluloid veneers

Table of machining speeds on back + 2 cursor windows

Nestler 26 Business & Machining
27 Technical long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

C & D long scales folded @ Pi + S & T also long-scale + cm scale in well of stock + tables of conversion factors on back & two cursor windows + see also larger sibling 

Nestler 27 Technical long-scale
27a Desktop Technical long-scale wood/celluloid veneers

C & D long scales folded @ Pi + S & T also long-scale + desktop model meant accuracy of 0.03% + cm scale in well of stock+ tables of conversion factors on back - long scales (folded @ Pi) & - see also smaller sibling 

Nestler 27a Desktop Technical long-scale
28 Universal Stadia Topography - 360g wood/celluloid veneers

German silver screws - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows + see bigger sibling

Nestler 28 Universal Stadia Topography - 360g
28a Desktop Stadia Universal Topography - 400g wood/celluloid veneers

Tables of conversion factors on back - model later replaced by 0286 Geometer + see smaller sibling

Nestler 28a Desktop Universal Stadia Topography 400g
3 Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

SUPPLIED BY ASTON & MANDER LONDON in well

31 Timber wood/celluloid veneers

For all aspects of timber industry (round & square timber ) - same model used by Albert Nestler (1851-1901) to calculate raw material needed for making wooden slide rules - cm & inch scales + 3rd party name Vollmer-Werke A.G.

Nestler 31 Timber
33 Chemical wood/celluloid veneers

German sliver screws - table of atomic weights on back

Nestler 33 Chemical
33 Chemical - early wood/celluloid veneers

​Narrow stock - German sliver screws - table of atomic weights on back + 1 cursor window

Nestler 33 Chemical - early
37 Electro wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

Nestler 37 Electro
37 Electro - early wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) + cm scale in well of stock + German silver screws - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

Nestler 37 Electro - early
37 Electro - monochrome & early wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) + monochrome with no CI but cm scale in well of stock + German silver screws - table of conversion factors on back + 2 cursor windows

Nestler 37 Electro Monochrome & Early
37/15 Extra long Pocket Electro wood/celluloid veneers

Top non-standard scale is for rapid calculation of tension losses in copper wires + bottom non-standard scale is for calculating peripheral velocities (D scale displaced by pi/6 or 0.5326) + cm scale in well of stock - conversion tables on back + 2 cursor windows​

Nestler 37/15 Pocket Electro
37a Desktop Electro wood/celluloid veneers

German silver screws + cm scale in well of stock + Table of constants on back

Nestler 37a Desktop Electro
39 Pocket Electro - Sytem Besser wood/celluloid veneers

39 is one of the model no.‘s Nestler illogically reused for 2 totally different types + extremely unusual layout of scales (DBGM for Erwin Besser) + table of constants on back ​

Nestler 39 Pocket Electro - Sytem Besser
4 Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

​Retailer’s name also in well

40 Retail & Monetary wood

Unusual incised scales + 1 cursor window in back 

Nestler 40 Retail & Monetary
40 Retail & Monetary - classic wood/celluloid veneers

German silver screws + table of conversion factors & 1 cursor window in back

Nestler 40 Retail & Monetary - classic
40 Retail & Monetary - early wood/celluloid veneers

Narrow stock & probably earliest model specifically made by any maker for commerce + ​German silver screws + 1 cursor window in back

Nestler 40 Retail & Monetary - early
40a Desktop Retail & Monetary - late wood/celluloid veneers

Unusual scale layout + British pound sterling (£ s d) scales on back of slide + conversion tables on back

Nestler 40a Desktop Retail & Monetary - late
41 Lilliput Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

cm & inch scale on back + 2 cursor windows​

42Z Lilliput Mannheim celluloid

unnecessarily 2 cursor windows in back

43 Reinforced Concrete - System Hoffmann wood/celluloid veneers

Stress factors 1200 & 1400kg/cm2 of iron on either side of slide + table of factors on back & 2 cursor windows

Nestler 43 Reinforced Concrete - System Hoffmann
45 Desktop Basic long-scale metal/paper

Largest of only 3 cylinder/drum models

Nestler 45 Desktop Basic long-scale
5 Mannheim wood painted white

Table of conversion factors on back painted white

7 Business wood painted white

Table of conversion factors printed on back - cheaper construction (e.g. no German silver screws) but still quality finish

Nestler 7 Business
8 Rietz wood painted white

Table of conversion factors on back painted white

9 Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

2 cursor windows in back

939 Hoehenwindmessung Desktop Military Artillery Range Finding/Meteorology plastic/metal

Modern day 360 degree Winkel in Grad version of High Altitude Calculator for German Armed forces (NATO NSN No.: 6660-12-127-6307) for global missile trajectories or possibly jet stream & its effect on missiles or planes flying at high altitude + read more ...

Nestler 939 Hoehenwindmessung Desktop Military Artillery Range Finding
A.B.C. Military Tank Artillery plastic

Special commission for L’arme blindée et cavalerie (ABC) or Armoured Cavalry Arm of French Army + 2 unnecessary cursor windows in back

Nestler A.B.C. Military Tank Artillery
ABC Pocket Military Radiation plastic/metal

Specially commissioned fallout calculator for German Armed Forces (NATO NSN no.: 6665-12-136-1506) & ABC = Atomic, Biological & Chemical -- table on back lists battlefield fallout compensation/reduction factors + read more ...

Nestler ABC Pocket Military Radiation
ABL Military Vehicle Logistics & Supply plastic

Specially commissioned calculator for vehicles travelling in column formation made for the Belgian Army (ABL) but relationship to Westf. Versandhaus is unknown - Inch scale on back

Nestler ABL Military Vehicle Logistics & Supply
GEA Pocket Enhanced Mannheim wood/celluloid veneers

Specially commissioned by Bochum-based German supplier of air conditioning and refrigeration technology Gesellschaft für Entstaubungsanlagen (GEA AG) + railway track scales & German silver screws + table of constants & 2 cursor windows in back 

Glanzstoff Pocket Textile plastic

Specially commissioned by Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG + company name & logo’s on back + more textile constants + 2 cursor windows

Nestler Glanzstoff Pocket Textile
Hermann Schubert Pocket Textile wood/celluloid veneers

Specially commissioned by the Zittau-based leading German sewing thread supplier Herman Schubert + ​deceivingly nondescript Mannheim layout was later granted a German DRGM registered design (1454414) on 18-11-1938 because of the thread size table on back & later modified cursor

Nestler Hermann Schubert Pocket Textile
Landis & Gyr (11O) Pocket Mannheim plastic

Unmarked 11O special commission for Landis & Gyr A.G. - co. name printed on back with two unecessary cursor windows

Landis & Gyr (11ZR) Pocket Enhanced Mannheim celluloid

Unmarked 11ZR special commission for Landis & Gyr A.G. - co. name printed on back with two cursor windows

Luftwaffenamt Military Time-Speed-Distance for aircraft wood/celluloid veneers

Special commission for German Luftwaffenamt (Air Force) + German sliver screws - continuation of 1:30000000 top-edge scale in well +  blind stamp in back indicates military provenance 

Nestler Luftwaffenamt Military Time-Speed-Distance for aircraft
RL 130 Mannheim-like plastic/metal

Pre-engineered generic model made here for German Friedrich Krupp AG - back of the cursor innovatively doubles up as a clip for jacket or shirt pocket + read more ...

Nestler RL 130 Mannheim-like
Sydema Corpometer Bespoke Tailoring Aid wood/celluloid veneers

Special commission consisting of a 4-part ruler (one part missing) possibly for Wolterstorff to measure the size & shape of the female form for a made-to-measure jacket/coat  

Nestler Sydema Corpometer Bespoke Tailoring Aid
Sytem Rietz Rietz wood/celluloid veneers

Special commission possibly for British maker/retailer A.G.Thornton but with a stock width associated more with a Mannheim type - table of constants on back + 1 cursor window.

Total Stralenschutz Pocket Radiation plastic/metal

Non-military ABC (Atomic, Biological & Chemical) fallout calculator specially made for German company: Total KG Foerstner & Co.

Nestler Total Stralenschutz Pocket Radiation