Well thanks for the help fellows, I will look on the compasses to see where they were made (Finland or Sweden I would guess), then send off some inquiries via e-mail.

Schwert, my father did a lot of prospecting in Northern Ontario and used a match-box type compass as seen in the image you posted, I think it was a Silva (but I could be "off course here")?

I have recently been using a Suunto Compass (MC-1) in "Mils" instead of "Degrees", it is hard to change your brain to think in a different format.

Mike