An early 19th-Century lacquered-brass surveyor's miniature sextant,
An early 19th-Century lacquered-brass surveyor's miniature sextant,

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An early 19th-Century lacquered-brass surveyor's miniature sextant,
signed on the frame Harris 47 Holborn LONDON, with eyepiece, mirrors, the index arm with silvered vernier to read against the silvered scale on the arc, engraved 0-140, contained in the original pale blue silk and plush-lined fishskin-covered case -- 3in. (8.3cm.) wide

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