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Description: | A circular brass case on three levelling feet covered with a blackened glass plate serving as mirror. The spirit level is missing.
The artificial horizon is contained in a fitted rectangular wooden box, that also contains a box sextant by Gilbert and Sons (NAV1220) and a pocket compass (NAV0466).
This instrument belonged to Edward Newell Harrison, clerk of HMS ?Assistance?. He went to the Arctic in 1850-51 in search of Sir John Franklin, and died in the West Indies before 1855.
AUDIT - mark the box as NAV0019.1
caption: Sextant Box
caption: Box Sextant - Whole Open Box. NAV1220 (Left) NAV0466 (Centre) NAV0019 (Right)
caption: Group Shot in Box - Compass, Sextant and Sextant Box
caption: Artificial Horizon | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | artificial horizons Edward Newell Harrison Assistance fl.1850 (purchased 1850 ex-BABOO. Abandoned in Arctic 1854) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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