Sextant box

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Fitted square wooden box, probably not original to the instrument. The lid has inlaid wooden figures depicting a sextant with on either side two shipping companies house flags. They are for the Australian Steam Shipping Co. Ltd, London on the left, and for the Manchester Liners Ltd., Manchester on the right.

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Object Details

ID:	NAV1158.1
Type:	Sextant box
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Parkinson & Frodsham
Date made:	circa 1870
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 140 mm x 320 mm x 287 mm
Parts:	Sextant Sextant box (NAV1158.1) Sextant telescope (NAV1158.2) Sextant telescope (NAV1158.3) Sextant (NAV1158.4) Sextant sight tube (NAV1158.5) Sextant telescope (NAV1158.6) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.7) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.8) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.9) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.10) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.11) Sextant shaded eyepiece (NAV1158.12)