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Object Details
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- Description
- 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° to 155° and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The inscription reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER Co NEW YORK 4652." The serial number indicates that it was made in 1900. New it cost $120.
- Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue (New York, 1906), p. 414.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1900
- ID Number
- 2003.3107.01
- catalog number
- 2003.3107.01
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3107
- Object Name
- sextant
- Measurements
- radius: 7 in; 17.78 cm
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 1/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 27.305 cm x 23.1775 cm
- place made
- United States: New York
- United States: New Jersey
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- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1273247
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-7a97-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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