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1576835500Code 6539 Antique sextantSextant made of burnished brass signed HEAT & C ° New Eltham London S.E.9., HEZZANITH n. 597 Endless Rapid Reader Automatic Clamp made in the 1930s, a revision certificate placed inside the lid informs that the sextant was set up on 3 March 1949. The instrument is complete with lenses and accessories, placed in its beautiful original oak wood box complete with lock with key, hinges and brass handle. On the lid of the box a label has engraved the name of the owner D. Ward Krichbaum. Silver flap and vernier, ebonite handle, 3 colored glasses for the fixed mirror and 4 for the movable one, two telescopes, a microscope for reading the vernier, graduated from 0 to 153 °, index and horizon mirror. Box 28 x 27 cm h 13 - inches 11x10.6 h 5.11. Very good condition and perfectly working.
Sextant is an optical instrument used in astronomic navigation for measure the height of a star on the horizon, for obtain geographical co-ordinates about ship. It is circular 60° sector shaped, the sixth part of circumference, that gives name to instrument.
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