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Fang Xiushui Feng Shui Geomancy Compass Luopan

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Fang Xiushui Feng Shui Geomancy Compass Luopan

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This Chinese Feng Shui geomancy compass has a circular heaven dial set in a square earth dial base, W 17 cm (6.8 in.). Provenance: Property of Bruce Elliot Tapper Ph.D., a social anthropologist, journalist, writer, and editor. He was an editor at the Smithsonian Associates Program in the early 1980s and then had a career as an editor at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Preview from Dec. 11th to 15th from 1:00 PM TO 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Location: 15229 Display Court, Rockville MD 20850.

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Fang Xiushui Feng Shui Geomancy Compass Luopan

Name: Fang Xiushui Feng Shui Geomancy Compass Luopan
SKU: 166320329
Price: 90 USD
Availability: InStock

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