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Box Sextant

Catalogue number:
1994.0147.02

Inscriptions:
"E. & G. W. Blunt, N.Y."

Dimensions:
diameter 3.25 inches

Discussion:
This has a silvered scale that is graduated every 30 minutes from -9^o to +161^o and read by vernier to single minutes of arc. Despite the American signature, this instrument was probably made in England. It belonged to the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Missouri.

Further Information:

Blunt (New York)
Box Sextant