- Subject
- Navigation
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dring & Fage
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay with his collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- "DRING & FAGE. LONDON" punched on ivory plate.
- Object type
- Octant
- Inventory No
- 44939
- Accession Number
- 1944-1/part
Description
Ebony 10" T-frame with brass index; ivory scale with clamp and tangent screw vernier; pinhole sight, index and horizon glass with fine adjustment; one set of three shades; pencil top and scratch plate missing.
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