Sextants

Artist Spencer Browing & Co. 1840 - 1870

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Sextants

Dimensions8.26 × 27.94 × 33.66 cm (3 1/4 × 11 × 13 1/4 in.)

MarkingsLabel: "Capt. Mark Haskell. of Bark 'Manuel Ortez', hailing from New Bedford, used this sextant on two whaling cruises between the years 1840-1850. He died in California in the year 1854. This sextant was brough to Concord by his brother John O. Haskell several years later, and was given to the Concord Antiquarian Society by his widow in the year 1905." Agent's label: "D. Eggert & Son 239 Pearl St., N.Y."

Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)

Object numberA2068A

DescriptionSextant (a) in wooden case (b). Sextant is made of wood (painted black) and metal fixtures with bone (?) or horn (?) measuring strip. Triangular in shape. Three small, rectangular mirrors attached, one at corner and two on side close by.

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