Case for Pillar Sextant with Counterpoise Stand by Troughton, London, c.1810

Wooden fitted box with a copper alloy handle on either side. Inside the case are three eyepieces with coloured lenses, a magnifying lens in a fold out case, a metal scale with rounded slots at either end, a long copper alloy body tube with crosshairs behind the eyepiece, and two shorted coper alloy body tubes with fitted lenses.