Sextant

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Sextant

Entry/Object ID

GHS 1089

Description

Truncated, triangularly shaped wood box, purpose built for this sextant with brass screw and brass hook and eye closure. Inside is brass sextant with glass viewers (?ES). Green wool felt pads.

Made/Created

Artist

Spencer, Browning and Ruft

Date made

1795 - 1890

Place

* Untyped Place

London, England

Dimensions

Height

5 in

Width

13 in

Depth

10-1/2 in

Material

Brass, Wood, Glass, Wool

Provenance

Notes

GHS Catalogue: Sextant and telescope used by Elisha Pickney of the ship Germantown - U.S. Navy. Also used during the World War while waiting for sufficient nautical instruments to be manufactured. Capt. Pickney lived for many years in Germantown on Pulaski Av. Object donated by Miss Helen Knight - grand daughter of Capt. Pickney, April 26, 1935.