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H5724 Octant, ebony/brass/bone, Henry Hunt, Cork, Ireland, c. 1850
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Object statement
Octant, ebony/brass/bone, Henry Hunt, Cork, Ireland, c. 1850
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Optician

c. 1850

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Description
Octant, ebony/brass/bone, Henry Hunt, Cork, Ireland, c. 1850 (OF). 1 quadrant by Henry Hunt, Cork, Ireland - 1850. Ebony frame ivory are, inverting & erect telescope, also simple eye-piece, brass arm & vernier scale - boxed (SB). 1 octant...(LC).
Ebony, brass and bone quadrant. Bone inset scale marked 0 - 100 (degrees), Vernier scale marked (0-20), One horizon glass and one index glass, two sets of filter finger and tangent screws, mounted on three brass legs. Boxed into a simple wooden structure with two metal hinges to the side and a sliding clasp to the other.

Designed: Hunt, Henry; England

Made: Hunt, Henry; England; 1845 - 1855
Marks
label inside lid " HENRY HUNT / Mathematical & Astronomical Instrument, / [illeg.]AKER / Removed from Patrick St. to 109, Old Georges Street, / Near the Post Office, CORK / Where he has his Observatory & Navigation Warehouse / Manufactury for Theodolites, Levels, Circles, Sextants, Quadrants / Borometers, Binacles Compasses, charts, STATIONARY &c. &c. / CHRONOMETERS RATED BY SOLAR & SADEBIAL T[illeg,]
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
H5724
Height
100 mm
Width
295 mm
Depth
325 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Captain Bower, 1958

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
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