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Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
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Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
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box
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Box for a Bubble Sextant
Box for sextant
Box Sextant
Box sextant
Box Sextant lid
Bubble Sextant
Bubble sextant, electric
Bubble Sextant batteries
Bubble Sextant battery
Bubble Sextant battery charger
Bubble Sextant battery charger part
Bubble Sextant box
Bubble Sextant bubble
Bubble Sextant lightbulb
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat?
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat holder
Bubble Sextant spare eyepiece unit
Case
Case for Sextant
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, sextant(combined sextant & protractor)
Double Box Sextant
double sextant
Double sextant
Double Sextant and Station pointer
Double Sounding Sextant
Double Sounding Sextant box
Double Sounding Sextant screw
Electrically powered sextant
Electric Sextant
Equatorial sector part
Eye piece
Eyepiece, sextant
eyepiece for sextant
Eyepiece with shades
Goniograph
Gyrosciopic Sextant
Gyroscipic Sextant
Gyroscopic Sextant
Gyro sextant
Key
knob
Lense
Lid for Sextant
Magnifying glass
Marine bubble Sextant battery
Navigational computing instrument
Night sextant
Octant
Paget angle sextant
paget angle sextant
Paget ngle sextant
Periscope sextant, stabilising platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform - submarine?
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
Pin ? for sextant
Pocket bubble sextant
Pocket sextant
Quintant
quintant
Sextant
sextant
sextant, bubble
Sextant, electric
Sextant, electric ?
Sextant, part
sextant, sonar
Sextant accessory
Sextant adjusting key
Sextant adjusting pin
Sextant adjusting spanner
Sextant adjustment key
Sextant adusting pin
sextant and station pointer
Sextant box
Sextant Box
Sextant box key
Sextant box lid
Sextant Box Strap
Sextant box telescope
Sextant bracket
Sextant brush
Sextant case
Sextant chamois
Sextant chamois cloth
Sextant chamois leather
Sextant clamp screw
Sextant electric
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant eyepieces
Sextant eyepiece section
Sextant eyepiece shade
Sextant eyepiece tube
Sextant frosted shade
Sextant greater angle clamp
Sextant Gyro
Sextant handle
Sextant horizon shades
Sextant lightbulb
Sextant magnifer and arm
Sextant magnifier
Sextant magnifying glass
Sextant miscellaneous part
Sextant oil bottle
Sextant part
Sextant Protractor
Sextant protractor box
Sextant protractor case
Sextant screwdriver
Sextant shade
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant sighting tube
Sextant sight tube
Sextant sight vane
Sextant silver reflector
Sextant spanner
Sextant spare draw tube
Sextant spare eyepiece section
Sextant Stand
Sextant stand
Sextant stand box
Sextant stand part
Sextant telescope
Sextant telescope eyepiece section
Sextant telescope mounting bracket
Sextant Tester
Sextant tommy bar
Sextant with Artificial Horizon
Sextant with artificial horizon
sextant with artificial horizon
Sextant with artificial horizon; box
Sextant with Artificial Horizon box
Sextant with artificial horizon box
Sighting tube
Sighting tube for sextant
Sight tube
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube for sextant
Solar Sextant
Solar sextant for submarine periscope
SOLD Bubble Sextant
Sonar Sextant
Sounding quintant
Sounding Sextant
Spherical trig problem solving instrument
Stand, sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: eyepiece, sextant(two)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(enlarged form of box sextant)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(instrument for finding index error)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(testing apparatus)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(with artificial horizon ca.1834)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box(with compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, gyro
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, paget angle
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: goniograph(combined double sextant & station pointer)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: quintant
surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant
Surveying Sextant
Surveyor's Double Sextant
Surveyor's Double Sextant and Station Pointer
Surveyor's Sextant
Telescope
Telescope for sextant
Telescope for sextant
Trommel sextant
Two eyepieces, sextant
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel ?
water transport: sailing vessel: yacht ?
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bakelite/Tufnol
bone
boxwood
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celluloid
chamois
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felt ?
glass
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inorganic: glass
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mahogany
Mahogany (CITES)
mahogany handle, lignum vitae
metal
metal: alloy
metal: alloy, aluminium
metal: aluminium
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
metal: bronze
metal: bronze ?
metal: iron
metal: silver
metal: silver:
metal: silver ?
metal: steel
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nylon thread ?
organic: cardboard
organic: ivory
paper
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plastic?
platinum
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synthetic materials
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wood: ebony
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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A. Ridge & Sons
Adams, Dudley
Adie, Alexander James
Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd
Baharie, A.
Barr & Stroud Ltd
Bassnett, James
Berge, Matthew
Bird, John
Browning, John
Cail, John
Cary
Cary, William
Cary Porter Ltd
Colby, Hall
Constantine Pickering & Co
Coombes, J.
Dennis, J C
Dennis, John Charles
Dollond & Aitchison
East Berks Boat Co
Einson-Freeman Co
Ekling, Joh M.
Elliott Bros
Ertel & Sohn
Ever Ready Co. (Great Britain) Ltd
Fleuriais, Georges Ernest
Fraser, William
Frodsham & Keen
G. Felsenthal & Sons
Gilbert & Sons
Gilkerson and Co
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H. & F. Muller
Haecke, H
Haeoke, H
Heath & Co. Ltd
Heath & Wing
Hennessy, Bernard Rudkin
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hicks, G. E.
Hinde, John
Hube
Hughes, James
Hughes, Joseph
Hurlimann Ponthus & Therrode
J. H. Steward Ltd
Jones, Thomas
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Lepetit, Albert
Lorieux
Meredith, James
Meredith, Nicholas
Nairne & Blunt
National Maritime Museum
Osram
Owens, Owen
Parkinson & Frodsham
Parnell, William
Plath, C.
Potter, John Dennett
Ramsden, Jesse
Reynolds & Wiggins
Ritchingham
Schmalcalder, Charles Augustus
Shimadzu Corporation
Smith, Edward
Société d'Exploitation de la Manufacture d'Armes Automatiques
Soho Scientific Instrument Co.
Spencer Browning & Rust
Stebbing, Joseph
Steward, J. H.
Swaisland, H
T. Cooke and Sons Ltd
Taylor, Janet
Thomas Ripley & Son
Troughton
Troughton & Simms
Troughton, Edward
Unknown
Vroliyk, Jac P
W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
Whitbread
Whitbread, G.
Whitbread, George
Whyte, J W, & Co
Wilson Fletcher Bruce & Sons Ltd
Worthington & Allan
Worthington, Nathaniel
Young, Douglas Johnson
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Middlesboro England; Cardiff, Wales
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Oakland, California, USA
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Vienna
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York
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Boxer Rebellion, 1900
Egypt War: Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
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Ayesha (1977)
Centurion (1892)
Condor (1876)
Fox (1855)
Goliath (1781)
Royalo fl.1940
Saturn (1786)
Worcester (1843)
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
North-West Passage
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
The Moon
Time and Longitude
Voyagers
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Admiral Fleurias
Becher, Alexander Bridport
Beresford, Charles William de la Poer
Blackwood, Capt
Blair, H. C.
Brothers, Hayes
Captain George
Captain Wilkinson
Duckworth, John Thomas
Ebbage, E. L.
Ekborg, Karl
Gardener, Vivien (Jnr. D
Gardener, Vivien (Snr)
Gauld, John
Gerrard, William
Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell
Hobson, William Robert
Holloway, G R
Home, A. Milne
Hoskins, T. H.
John Lilley & Son Ltd
Kew Observatory
Monks, P. A.
Nixon, John
Oliver, A H
Oliver, Henry Francis
Oliver, Richard Aldworth
Ommaney, John
Pei Yang Arsenal Naval School
Pilkington, Arthur Redman
Prince of Wales
Sir William Gell, William
Tibbits, David Stanley
VII, King Edward
Wyatt, P J
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Paget Angle Sextant (Surveyor's Sextant)
Sextant
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Bridge sextant (Sextant)
Sextant
Seekreiselsextant (Gyroscopic Sextant)
Octant
Pocket sextant (Box Sextant)
Pocket sextant (Box sextant)
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Colby's Horizon Instrument (Sextant with artificial horizon)
Sextant with Artificial Horizon
Sextant
Sextant with Artificial Horizon
Double Sounding Sextant
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Eyepiece for a small sextant or telescope (Sextant eyepiece)
Sextant
Sextant
Sextant sight tube
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