Brass Dollond-pattern frame sounding quintant.

Made:
1918-1923 in Holborn
maker:
W F Stanley and Company Limited
Sounding quintant made by W. F. Stanley and Co. Ltd

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Sounding quintant made by W. F. Stanley and Co. Ltd
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Sounding quintant made by W. F. Stanley and Co. Ltd., London, about 1920. Anodized brass Dollond-pattern frame, polished limb, a wooden handle. Signed on the limb: Stanley, London. Marked on the limb: 7361. Inlaid silver scale from -5° to 190° every 20', measuring to 156°. Silver vernier to 20", zero at the right. The tangent screw and clamping screw are on the back of the index arm. No shades. Index-glass adjustment by a capped capstan screw; adjustment of the horizon glass by a capped capstan screw and a square-headed screw and a detached key. Magnifier on a 45 mm swivelling arm. Threaded telescope bracket without adjustment. Telescope (119 mm, large objective) erect image; telescope (87 mm, large objective) erect image, with a diaphragm that can be screwed on the objective end. An adjusting key and an adjusting pin. A square fitted mahogany box with an inlaid brass plate on the lid marked: SX 2.

Details

Category:
Surveying
Object Number:
1985-804
Materials:
brass, glass, silver and wood
Measurements:
overall: 3.8 kg
type:
sounding quintant
credit:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratories