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A RARE AND UNUSUAL LEFT-HANDED SEXTANT
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A RARE AND UNUSUAL LEFT-HANDED SEXTANT

JOHN BENJAMIN DANCER, MID-19TH CENTURY

已結束2011年9月29日

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GBP 6,875

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A RARE AND UNUSUAL LEFT-HANDED SEXTANT
John Benjamin Dancer, mid-19th century
signed Dancer, Manchester., double-frame construction, telescope fitting into left-hand side, silvered scale divided to 150° with vernier, 7 shades, ebony handle, in fitted mahogany case with accesories.
8in. (20cm.) radius

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Almost all sextants were made for right-handed use; left-handed examples must have been made as special commissions. The present instrument, by the leading Manchester maker, must have been such a commission, and is an insteresting and important survival.