Octant with a rosewood frame, flat brass index arm, and ivory name plate. The ivory scale is graduated every 20 minutes from -5° to +95° and read by vernier to single minutes of arc. The "Andw Newell Maker Boston" inscription refers to Andrew Newell (1751-1798), a mathematical instrument maker in Boston. Inside the box is the trade card of David Baker, proprietor of a nautical instrument shop in New Bedford during the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
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