LIVINGSTONE'S CHRONOMETER, FOR THE ZAMBESI EXPEDITION 1860-64

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LIVINGSTONE'S CHRONOMETER, FOR THE ZAMBESI EXPEDITION 1860-64
A two day marine chronometer by E.J. Dent, London, No 1800, the silvered brass dial engraved with Roman chapters and with blued steel spade hands, signed in the centre DENT, LONDON. Chronometer Maker, to the QUEEN. No. 1800, subsidiary rings for seconds with blued steel hand and engraved with the Government arrow, UP/DOWN ring beneath chapter XII, the movement with chain fusee, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with cut bimetallic ballance with circular heat compensation weights and polished steel helical spring, the top plate engraved with the Government arrow, brass movement bowl punch-signed and numbered DENT 1800, mahogany three-tier box with brass drop handles to the sides and circular ivory plaque to the front engraved DENT 1800 TWO DAYS and also with the Government arrow.
dial diameter 9.5cm.; the box 15.5cm. square

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Lot Essay

This chronometer was supplied by Greenwich Observatory on August 31st 1860 for the 'Zambesi Expedition' and was probably part of the resupplying of the expedition in 1861 when Livingstone returned to Tete and took delivery of its new boat the Pioneer. A group from the Oxford and Cambridge mission arrived with the boat. For the next three years the chronometer was used by Livingstone, it was carried by him on board H.M.S. Pioneer and, later, was one of the two that he took with him in Lady Nyassa when he sailed from Mozambique to Bombay on 16th April 1864. On his arrival at Bombay on 14th June 1864 he checked it against the '9 p.m. Gun'. It was landed at Sheerness Dockyard at the beginning of June 1866 and on 11th June was returned to the maker DENT & CO. for overhauling and re-rating.

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