Lot
181
A lacquered brass box sextant signed Troughton & Simms London, with silvered scale, vernier and magnifier, internal shades(lacking telescope) with brass cover with presentation inscription to Henry W. Jsacke prize for Mathematics Royal M Academy June 1857; a lacquered brass circular protractor signed Troughton & Simms London, with twin folding arms, tangent screw and clamp, in fitted shaped mahogany case; another circular protractor signed Henry Barrow & Co. 26 Oxenden St. London, twin folding arms, tangent screw and clamp, silvered scale in fitted mahogany case; a spectroscopic eyepiece signed John Browning London; and a four vane lacquered brass surveying cross in case
Estimate
GBP 250 - GBP 350
A lacquered brass box sextant signed Troughton & Simms London, with silvered scale, vernier and magnifier, internal shades(lacking telescope) with brass cover with presentation inscription to Henry W. Jsacke prize for Mathematics Royal M Academy June 1857; a lacquered brass circular protractor signed Troughton & Simms London, with twin folding arms, tangent screw and clamp, in fitted shaped mahogany case; another circular protractor signed Henry Barrow & Co. 26 Oxenden St. London, twin folding arms, tangent screw and clamp, silvered scale in fitted mahogany case; a spectroscopic eyepiece signed John Browning London; and a four vane lacquered brass surveying cross in case