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Sextant

Catalogue number:
1999.0156.01

Inscriptions:
"Michael Rupp & Co. New York" and "English"

Dimensions:
radius 7.5 inches

Discussion:
Karl Axel Eriksson, a native of Sweden who became a U.S. citizen around 1910, bought this sextant, secondhand, in England in 1918. He used it for the rest of his life, and believed that it helped him "advance as a sailor." The sextant has a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 15 minutes from -5^o to +135^o and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to single seconds of arc.

Further Information:

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