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Sextant
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Sextant probably made for use in World War I. Brandis termed it a "U.S. Navy surveying sextant, 6 inch radius, reading 30 seconds of arc." New it cost $120. The frame is anodized brass. The silvered scale is graduated every 20 minutes from -5° to +185° and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier. The inscriptions read "BRANDIS & SONS, BROOKLYN, N.Y." and "5670." The words "U.S. Navy-N-4705" are scratched onto the arc. The serial number inside the wooden box is 3946.
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Credit lineSextant. ca 1917. Brandis & Sons, Inc.. National Museum of American History, C. Richard Hoshaw. CC0.
