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View full screenSextant, anodized brass 6" three-circle-pattern frame, polished brass limb, wooden handle, inlaid silver scale, silver vernier, in fitted square mahogany box, signed and made by Peter Airth Feathers and Son, Dundee, Scotland, c. 1880
T.1987.145
Peter Airth Feathers and Son, Instrument maker and retailer
Dundee, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
c. 1880
Anodised brass, Wood, Silver, Mahogany
Bronze, silver
Feathers, Peter Airth, 1821 - 1904
Leith Nautical College Collection
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, p.143-5