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Print (Engraving) of the Sextant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Showing Front and Back, with Separate Frame, ?18th Century

Inventory Number 21258


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.21258

Item type
Object
Physical material
Paper
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 85mm Width: 111mm Depth: 1mm Weight: 3g
Inventory No
21258

Description

Four paper notes from the original owner of the microscope. There are two Great Western Railway postal stamps, a 'WITH CARE' note with a Great Western Railway banner, a transport note from the Torquay Museum Passenger Train to F. Sherwood Taylor Curator os the Museum of the History of Science from September 1948, and a note clarifying this information dating the transfer as the 10th of September 1948.