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Sextant

Catalogue number:
2003.3107.01

Inscriptions:
"KEUFFEL & ESSER C^o NEW YORK 4652"

Dimensions:
radius 7. inches

Discussion:
Keuffel & Esser termed this a "high grade" sextant as made for the U.S. Navy. The frame is gun metal. The scale is silvered, graduated every 10 minutes from -5^o to 155^o and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The serial number indicates that it was made in 1900. New it cost $120.

Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue (New York, 1906), p. 414.

Further Information:

Keuffel & Esser
Sextant