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A late 19th Century brass sextant
signed on the arc H. Hughes, London, the diagonal cruciform-braced frame with silvered scale, seven shades, mirrors, vernier scale with tangent screw adjustment and magnifier, index arm -- 8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) radius, with ebony handle, four telescopes in fan shaped mahogany case with swan neck carrying handle -- 13½in. (34.3cm. wide
signed on the arc H. Hughes, London, the diagonal cruciform-braced frame with silvered scale, seven shades, mirrors, vernier scale with tangent screw adjustment and magnifier, index arm -- 8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) radius, with ebony handle, four telescopes in fan shaped mahogany case with swan neck carrying handle -- 13½in. (34.3cm. wide