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Airship pelorus
Airship pelorus - aircraft compass
Celestial navigational globe
Celestial navigational globe altitude circles
Celestial navigational globe box
Celestial navigational globe pointer
Compass card
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
Liquid compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
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surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, boat's(liquid)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid(hand held)
surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus, airship
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
water transport: sailing vessel: yacht ?
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Heath & Co. Ltd
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Eltham, England
New Eltham
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Ayesha (1977)
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Tibbits, David Stanley
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Liquid compass
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe altitude circles)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe box)
Sounding quintant spanner
Sextant telescope
Sextant bracket
Sextant eyepiece tube
Sounding quintant prism
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Sextant shaded eyepiece
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Hezzanith Bubble Horizon Sextant (Sextant with Artificial Horizon)
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