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Collection: Astronomy

Reinhaldt’s Transit

This transit is housed inside wooden storage box with shipping and other labels fixed to the top. The box has metal handles on either side,…

Sextant

This is a sextant with four telescope/optical attachments in a fan shaped wooden box. The box is hinged on one of the sides. The sextant…

Transit

Transit, extra objective, plumb line, magnifying glass (in tortoise shell cover), chisel, spanner and other spare parts are housed inside wooden storage box. Instrument rests…

Transit of Venus Slides

This is a stack of 18 small projection slides. Three of these are slides photographic film bound in cardboard; thirteen are have the image printed…

Box of Dividers

This is a long rectangular box containing 11 metal compass dividers. These are wrapped in wax paper and contained in a cloth drawstring bag. Each…

Spectroscopic Eyepiece

This is a small satin-lined box containing a spectroscopic piece and three optical attachments. The spectroscopic piece has a base for a friction fit onto…

Transit Tripod

This tripod consists of three wooden legs connected by hinged brackets at the top. These have been cut in order to fit together to form…