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A north arrow beside map title text. The title text is in an ovate kind of rondel thing, bordered on the side by horns, festooned at the top by tassely things and grass and resting on on a crest of grass and leaves The north arrow is an eight pointed star with alternating segments and a yellow floral boss at the centre. North is indicated by an ornate fleur de lys with an oddly squashed point

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Bruhn 1781

A twofer. Just look at that title, with errata and everything.

The north arrow is a bit gaudy for me, and the fleur de lys pointy bit seems kinda squashed. Aside from these gripes it is pleasingly different. 5/10.

A north arrow with a weird mirrored barb and fletchings

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Back at it.

Christian Sørensen 1816.

I'm glad the weird finial handlebar moustache thing didn't catch on. It offends the very purpose and meaning of pointing. 2/10.

A decorative north arrow / wind rose in contrasting colours. Ar the centre an 8 pointed star. the central, cardinal parts are shaded in blue with a circular blue boss. diagonal to these the other four arms are shaded orange. A green circle surrounds. This is surrounded by a green circle- The arrow is a fleur de lys, nicely shaded in blue pencil. The other directions are picked out by little shaded blue circles that look like pearls

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Did someone ask for some recreational north arrow discourse as a distraction?

Hans Severin Bruhn 1779.

A bit colourful for my taste, and startlingly reminiscent of our nasty '80s bathroom tiles. Still nicely done. 7/10

A north arrow drawn in pencil. An uneven barbed head and a little ball at the end. Somewhat perfunctory.

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Terman Øllgaard Hillerup 1816.

Look, we understand. It's friday afternoon. You're desperate to finish up and get to the pub. However: This. Is. Unacceptable. 1/10.

A north arrow with varying line width.

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Martin Ludvig Daniel Wesenberg 1783,

If Rorschach made north arrows. 8/10.

A very poorly proportioned north arrow. Feathery fletchings and a rhombus / circle finial

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Niels Christian Rørbye 1817

The proportions of this make me sad. 2/10

A north arrow defined by a four pointed star within a palimpsest text

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Christopher Nicolai Lindenhan 1792

Palimpsest is one of my favourite words. 8/10

An eight pointed north arrow, shaded yellow and green. For some reason the SW point is bigger- like it's unfinished or this was meant to be north?

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Sørensen 1796

A splash of colour for monday morning. I wonder what's going on with the SW point? 5/10

A north arrow, consisting of concentric circles with a cross in the middle. there's a little ornate point indicating north

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Andreas Haar 1778

I like this one. I think the eccentricity of the inner circle makes it. The little doodlydoo arrowhead is also nice. 9/10

An ornate north arrow with a faceted 32 pointed star with an 8 pointed star at the centre. A nice wobbly fleur de lys indicates N

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Lorentz Astrup 1782.

I like this even though I shouldn't. The contrasting star at the centre adds something, and I'm coming to really dig slightly wobbly hand drawn fleur de lys. 8/10.

A north arrow in the form of a quill pen drawn in black ink. At the nib is written " Nord"

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Jørgen Wilhelm Ammundsen 1817.

Definitely falls in the category of the surveyor having had too much time on their hands, but this is rather lovely. 9/10

A north arrow. tapered shaft. fletchings indicated by different line weights each side. Small barb about 5/6 of the way to the point.

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Rasmus Tørslev 1797.

I like this one. The shading on the fletching by varying line weight is nice. proportions good. 9/10

A north arrow. Eight pointed star comprised of two eight pointed tars. Segments picked out red and yellow crayon, West is the only indicated direction. N is indicated by a fleur-de-lys thingy in black ink

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Andreas Haar 1799.

Go west! 6/10.

An eight point star with segmented in black and white. At the centre is a white eight pointed star. N-S is indicated by an arrowhead and fletchings. Lines radiate out from the star indicating direction

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Hans Jørgen Wilsgaard Hansen 1816.

I like this one. The star / rose at the centre makes it a bit lighter. 8/10.

North arrow. Eight pointed star with a line extending out of the north pole. has an ornate fleur de lys thingy on the finial.

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Martin Ludvig Daniel Wesenberg 1782

This looks like the same artist as the last one. Better proportioned. Like the fancy wee finial that's endearingly hand drawn and uneven. 7/10.

A north arrow. eight pointed star with a longer north arm. at the end of this some sort fleur-de-lys finial thingy

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Anonymous 1781.

Oooh fancy! Ungainly. 4/10

A north arrow consisting of an octogram super imposed on an arrow. It is squat and dumpy and if infilled with hatching

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Melgard 1807.

Oppressive. Stodgy. 4/10.

An ornate north arrow shaded blue and pink. This takes the form of an arrowshaft with a swallowtail head and fletching. The fletching covers about 1/2 the shaft. 374 of the way up is an ornate windrose with 16 points.

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Poul Winther Johansen 1815

This one is an example of the surveyor having too much time on their hands and going way overboard. This is too much. 5/10

Two north arrows. One is ornate, with a decorated head and fletching. This has been scored out and a simpler one drawn over it at 45 degrees. This one has no ornamentation. The handwriting looks the same

Back on my bullshit

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Valdemar Engelsted 1815

This one has a story. North isn't that way. I like how the initial attempt is ornate and clearly took time, whereas the correction is minimal- almost perfunctory. How human. 9/10

North arrow, consisting of a tapered black line. The fletchings at the base seem to be facing the wrong way. The labels read Nord and Syd

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Carl Wesenberg 1794.

Different. The fletchings seem like they're backwards. 6/10

Wind rose. 8 pointed with two four pointed stars overlain. facets defined by hatching. lines extend from points. Single letters W N Ø denote cardinal directions

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Jens Grouleff 1812.

Guess this is nice if you like this sort of thing. 7/10

A simple north arrow. A semicircle at the base and a barb about 3/4 of the way up. The shat tapers to a narrow line. At the tip Nord is written in cursive in line with the shaft

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Anonymous, 1815.

I really like this one. Simple, dynamic. Directional. 10/10

North arrow. f scrolls on the shaft. fletchings longer on one side. barbed head. cursive text at tip saying "Nord"

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Ernst Bogislaw Wesenberg 1794

It's different, I'll give it that. 7/10.

Another North arrow. this one has fletchings covering 2/3 of the shaft.

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Niels Andreas Thyregod 1815.

All feathers no class 6/10.

A four pointed north arrow / windrose. The arms are the same length. Its got hatching shading the facets, and little calligraphic flourishes at the N and S points

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Ernst Bogislaw Wesenberg 1787

Too fussy for me. I don't like that the arms are all the same length. 5/10.

A north arrow in the form of an arrow. The head is a single obtuse line. The word "Nord" is written over the shaft. It has hatched fletchings

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Michael Jensen Skibsted 1793

I don't like this one. The obtuse head and visual clutter caused by overlaying "Nord" over the shaft is distracting. 4/10