Powerhouse Museum Collection Search 2.53
Category history:
   

Support the Powerhouse with a tax-deductible gift

Make a donation
Make a donation
Make a donation
User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. You can add keywords that may be useful in helping others find this object.

We are experimenting with tagging because sometimes museums describe objects in language that is highly specialist and user added keywords are useful in bridging the 'semantic gap' between the language of the museum and that of the user.

Any keywords listed have been added by other users like yourself. You can click on them to use them as search terms to dicover other objects. User tags
Related subjects lists the broad themes that have relevance to the object you are viewing. You can click these themes to see other objects related thematically. Related Subjects
+ Navigation
+ Exploration
Theme containing this object
+ Cooke Troughton & Simms
Here you can find links to other objects in our collection that belong to the same formal classification categories as the object you are viewing. Similar objects
Astronomy Equipment > Sextants

+ 2010/1/25 Aircraft sextant Mk V, metal /...
+ 2010/1/225 Box sextants (2) with case, m...
+ 85/79 Box sextant with case, brass / lea...
+ H3789 Octants, (3), and a sextant, ebony...
+ H4348 Octant, [ebony], ivory/brass/mahog...
+ H4944 Sextant, brass, [John Bruce & Son]...
+ H5105 Octant, ebony/bone and brass, Bate...
+ H5106 Sextant, brass, T & H Do[e]Belt, [...
+ H5107 Octant, ebony/brass, Sewill, Liver...
+ H5108 Sextant, brass, and box, made by B...
+ H5109 1 model in wood of an early quadra...
+ H5361 1 Sextant instrument by Kilpatrick...
+ H5641 Nautical Sextant in Cedar Case. In...
+ H6652 Marine sextant made by E. & E. Ema...
+ H6917 Surveyor's box sextant made by Car...
+ H7232 Sextant with accessories and case,...
+ H8528 Sextant and wood case. (LC)....
+ H9358 Navigational equipment, nautical s...
+ H10057 Navigational equipment, sextant i...
+ B1345 Sextant, nautical, surveyor's inst...
+ B1435 Sextant, bubble, aviation, with al...


'Autogenerated tags' are a new feature that we are testing. These tags are generated by passing the object record through the OpenCalais service from Reuters. This service makes a 'best guess' at the names, places, companies and specialist terminolgy that is in the text of the object records.

By clicking on a tag you can find all other collection records related to that person, place or company.

Because the tags are autogenerated there are likely to be some errors. If you spot one of these then please flag the tag for deletion by clicking the 'x'. Auto-generated tags: [Beta]

Brass sextant by Troughton & Simms, London, 1831 - 1841
This image is not currently available as a higher resolution full colour zoom. This may be because this object has not been moved from storage and re-photographed in recent times.

Object statement
Sextant, No. 1920, brass, made by Troughton & Simms, made in London, England, c. 1836
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
The sextant was made by Troughton & Simms of London, England, c. 1836.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
The sextant is inscribed "Presented by Richard Evans Price Esq to Capt Geo Johnston of the Barque 'Australia' for his kind and unremitting attentions to me and my family while passengers in his vessel from London to Valparaiso - 23 February 1836".

 This text content licensed under CC BY-NC.

Description
Sextant, No. 1920, brass, made by Troughton & Simms, made in London, England, c. 1836

Double plated brass sextant with telescope (the telescope is probably not original to the sextant), solar filters and wooden handle. Scale ruled on silver. Sextant is inscribed for presentation.

Also a brass cased 14 second hourglass which may not be directly related to sextant.

Made: Troughton & Simms; London, England; 1831 - 1841
Marks
Along scale of sextant, presentation inscribed "Presented by Richard Evans Price Esq to Capt Geo Johnston of the Barque 'Australia' for his kind and unremitting attentions to me and my family while passengers in his vessel from London to Valparaiso - 23 February 1836". Also maker's inscription on strut of sextant 'TROUGHTON & SIMMS, LONDON;1920'. On hourglass '14/SEC'
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
H10399
Production date
1831 - 1841
Height
250 mm
Width
100 mm

 This text content licensed under CC BY-SA.
Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1984
Subjects
+ Navigation
+ Exploration
Short persistent URL
Concise link back to this object: http://from.ph/232657
Cite this object in Wikipedia
Copy and paste this wiki-markup:

{{cite web |url=http://from.ph/232657 |title=Brass sextant by Troughton & Simms, London |author=Powerhouse Museum |accessdate=22 May 2013 |publisher=Powerhouse Museum, Australia}}


Copyright
Images on this site are reproduced for the purposes of research and study only. Whilst every effort has been made to trace the Copyright holders, we would be grateful for any information concerning Copyright of the images and we will withdraw them immediately on Copyright holder's request.
Object viewed 5291 times. Parent IRN: 2143. Master IRN: 2143 Img: 28191 Flv: H:568px W:608px SMO:1 RIGHTS:.