Brass Nautical Sextant in Box Antique Vintage Home Decor Celestial Navagation

Description

A beautiful solid, polished brass reproduction of a vintage nautical sextant housed in an equally beautifully finished wood box with attractive inlaid brass accents. Though not recommended for professional navigational use, it still has all lenses and movements as an authentic sextant and is an excellent piece for home decor, museum, classroom or history demonstration and nautical enthusiasts and collectors. In its day, a sextant was used as an astronomical instrument used to determine latitude and longitude at sea by measuring angular distances, especially the altitudes of sun, moon, and stars.
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