Lot 58
A 7in. Radius Bell Frame Sextant by Heath & Co. Crayford, London. 27 x 25 x 14cm. (10.5 x 10 x 5.5in.)
25 February 2004, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £705 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 7in. Radius Bell Frame Sextant by Heath & Co. Crayford, London.
blackened brass frame, reading from -5 to 150 degrees on the silvered scale, numbered 6027 and engraved A G Harris RN on the arc. With swivelling magnifying lens and ground glass screen on the index arm, and a vernier reading to 10 seconds. Four sun, and three horizon shades. In a fitted mahogany carrying case with Heath patent retaining lock, three telescopes, two lenses, adjusting pin and star scope, bearing a National Physical Laboratory certificate dated May 1954 (the latest of several). 27 x 25 x 14cm. (10.5 x 10 x 5.5in.)