Accession No

0817

Brief Description

sextant, pocket marine surveying-type, by C. E. Kraft, Austrian, 1830 (c)

Origin

Austria; Vienna

Maker

Kraft, C. E.

Class

surveying

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, silver, steel); glass; wood (boxwood); cloth (velvet); hide (morocco leather)

Dimensions

box length 170mm; breadth 188mm; height 52mm (breadth 150mm; 28-1-2000)

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from Charles Benton, London, England, on 20/08/1936.

Inscription

‘C.E. Kraft, in Wien’

Description Notes

Sextant, pocket marine surveying-type, by C. E. Kraft, Austrian, 1830 (c).

Small brass sextant (surveying). Adjustable index mirror. Adjustable horizon glass (by knurled brass knob). Screw-in brass telescopic sights. Brass index arm, with silvered vernier and brass clamp. Scale divided [-10] - 130 numbered by 10, divided to 1˚. Steel point fixed to zero end of scale forms pair of dividers with similar point on extension to index arm. Blued steel screws. Boxwood and brass screw-in handle. Green velvet lined fitted red morocco case (with brass (?) decoration around inside edge; 28-1-2000).

Condition: good; complete.

References

Joshua Nall; ‘Pundits and The Great Game’; Explore Whipple Collections online article; Whipple Museum of the History of Science; University of Cambridge; 2020: https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/astronomy-and-empire/local-knowledge/pundits-and-great-game

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