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    24 September 2008

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    • A wooden astrolabic quadrant
    Lot 15

    A wooden astrolabic quadrant

    OTTOMAN TURKISH, 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 2,750

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    A wooden astrolabic quadrant
    Ottoman Turkish, 19th century
    a wooden quadrant with markings in red and black, gilt decoration, red painted edges, the obverse with diagram of unequal hours drawn in red to the upper right corner, the ecliptic in black, the divided horizon with gilt decorations every 5°, the reverse with a gilt decorated sexagesimal trigonometric grid, plumb bob missing.
    6½in. (16.5cm.) maximum radius

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