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View full screenOctant, brass frame and limb, wooden handle, inlaid silver scale and vernier, retailed by Peter Airth Feathers and Son of Dundee, unknown probably English maker, c. 1890
T.1980.184
Unknown, Instrument maker
England, Northern Europe
c. 1890
Brass / bronze
Retailer: Peter Airth Feathers and Son
Arthur Frank Collection of Scottish Scientific Instruments
Scotland Creates: National Museum of Scotland
National Museum of Scotland
Scotland Creates: McManus Galleries and Museum (01 Nov 2013 - 31 Dec 2013)
McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
T.N. Clarke, A.D. Morrison-Low and A.D.C. Simpson: Brass & glass : scientific instrument making workshops in Scotland as illustrated by instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland, 1989, pp 143-5