14-inch Rosewood Octant in Red-painted Case

Description:

14-inch Rosewood Octant in Red-painted Case, 19th century, brass indexing arm, sighting pinnula, horizon mirror, and sunshades, scale from 0-95, and vernier 0-20, housed in a fitted red-painted keystone-shaped box with paper label reading in part "George Edward Nyberge Pavala 1861," with a paperback copy of Sailing Directions for the English Channel by Charles Wilson.
Estimate $500-700

lid hinges need to be reset, small patch to lid on lower object left corner.


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