Nautical Sextants

Table Sextant By Throughton & Simms Dated 1880" Very pretty table sextant signed Troughton & Simms London 1880. In a delicate mahogany box we discover the engraved instructions for u...

Presented is one of the rarest Plath Navistar Classic sextants that we have offered. It was used in the 1986, Steger International Polar Expedition to the North Pole by the team lead...

In 1775, he invented a semi-automatic dividing machine, capable of marking graduated scales on sextants and other nautical and astronomical instruments of his own manufacture, and pr...

A Scottish seaman's double frame sextant of brass, with radius index arm, and accessories, in fitted, hinged box of mahogany. Signed: D. McGregor & Co., Greenock & Glasgow With...

Sextant of painted brass HEATH & C Ltd New Heltham London manufacturer of scientific instruments founded in 1845 and active until 1937. HEZZANITH Endless Rapid Reader Automatic Clamp...

Presented is an American nautical sextant, dating to the mid-19th century. The wood, brass, and ivory sextant was made by Erasmus A.

This is a vintage cased sextant. An English, cast metal nautical handheld scientific instrument, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960.

1930s Brass sextant signed Husun Trade Mark and made by H. Hughes & Son Ltd, a company active for about 250 years and specialized in the production of nautical instruments; instrumen...

Paget angular sextant, H. Hughes & Son Ltd London no. 620 datable to 1910 circa. The sextant is made up of two round aluminum plates, the upper part with the avorioline goniometric s...

Brass sextant signed John Lilley & Son Ltd London & North Shields, made in 1913 circa, in its original mahogany box with brass handles, hinges and locking hooks. Brass frame with eng...

Burnished brass sextant signed HEATH & C Ltd New Heltham London SE9, manufacturer of scientific instruments founded in 1845 and active until 1937. HEZZANITH Endless Tangent Screw Aut...

A late 19th century bronze surveyor's sextant manufactured by the L. Beckmann Co. of Toledo Ohio (1874-1951). The scope is not functioning, but all other parts are.

A fine vernier sextant by Whyte, Glasgow. Vernier curved frame sextant, the arc signed J.Whyte, Broomielaw, Glasgow. Bone engraved scale divided from 0 to 120 degrees, the ...

Brass sextant signed Georg Hechelmann Nachf Hamburg from the late 19th century, original wooden box with locking hooks, handles, brass hinges and key set. Flap and vernier in silver,...

Early twentieth century solid brass ship navigators sextant in wood box. With calibration label dated 1920 from the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Index arm with silver sc...

Early twentieth century solid brass ship navigators sextant in wood box. With calibration label dated 1920 from the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Index arm with silver sc...

Sextant of burnished brass signed Hayes Brothers Cardiff Barry and Port Talbot of the late nineteenth century. Flap and vernier made of silver, oak wooden handle, 3 colored glasses f...

Burnished brass sextant from the second half of the 19th century signed Frodsham & Keep Liverpool active in 17 South Castle street, Liverpool between 1856-1878 and placed in its beau...

A rare mahogany cased single framed sextant by D McGregor & Co of Clyde Place, Glasgow, dating from the late 19th Century.

A rare pocket sextant by Brooks of Ludgate Street London. Retained in its original mahogany travelling box, English, circa 1850.    

Brass navigators sextant formerly used by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. USCGS and CS323 engraved on scope. Fitted to a hinged box. Missing accessory scopes. Circa 1940.

Brass sextant signed Husun ??Trade Mark and made by Kelvin & Hughes Limited at the end of the 1940s, a company operating for about 250 years and specialized in the creation of nautic...

Brass sextant signed Ainsley South Shields (1858-1886) complete with original wood case and lenses. Silver vernier, wood handle, 3 colored glasses for the fixed mirror and 4 for th...

Brass sextant signed WC COX Devonport made in the mid-19th century, instrument complete with three telescopes, one of which is long, a filter, an adjustment key and placed in its ori...

Burnished brass sextant signed Potter Poultry London, mid-19th century, complete with original mahogany box shaped like the instrument, brass hinges and hooks. Flap and vernier made ...

1930s Brass sextant signed Husun Trade Mark and made by H. Hughes & Son Ltd, a company active for about 250 years and specialized in the production of nautical instruments; instrumen...

Negus were highly regarded nautical instrument makers and arguably the leading manufacturers in the United States during the second half of the 19th century.

Antique English "Paget Angle Sextant" in original case made by H. Hughes and Son Limited, circa 1920.

Classic circa 1940 three-ring framed sextant in box. Box contains five accessory scopes, meticulously polished and lacquered. Of the five accessory scopes, four are fastened in. Ther...

Burnished brass sextant made in the second half of the 19th century and placed in its beautiful original mahogany wood box shaped like the instrument, complete with a key lock with h...

Brass sextant made in the mid-19th century, complete with lenses and placed in its beautiful original mahogany box complete with key and brass handle and hinges. Vernier of engraved ...

Burnished brass sextant from the early 1900s signed J. Parkes & Sons Liverpool n. 9601, and placed in its original oakwood box, complete with lock with key, hinges, hooks and brass h...

Brass sextant signed Heath & C. Crayford London of the late 19th century, complete with lensens and placed in its beautiful original oak box, complete with original key, with hooks, ...

Brass sextant signed Negretti & Zambra made in the second half of the 19th century, complete with lenses and compass placed in its original mahogany box complete with key lock and br...

Brass sextant from the second half of the 19th century, signed Matheson & Co Leith Makers to the Royal Navy complete with lenses and placed in its beautiful original mahogany box wit...

Brass sextant signed Buff & Buff Mfg Co Boston USA 5588 made in the beginning of the XX century, complete with lenses and compass placed in its original mahogany box complete with ke...

Burnished brass sextant signed George Odell Late of Cary London from the second half of the 19th century, complete with lenses and placed in its beautiful original oak wooden box wit...

Brass sextant signed W.R Williams Dock St. Newport from the mid-19th century, complete with lenses and placed in its beautiful original mahogany box shaped like the instrument. Extre...

Brass sextant made the second half of the 19th century, placed in its original wooden box. Vernier of engraved silver, handle of boxwood, 3 colored glasses for the fixed mirror and 4...

The design is nautical, with a compass, sextant and nautical flags.

19th century nautical sextant in box.

This is an untouched as found sextant. The case and its parts look complete with all 4 lenses.

Brass sextant, Russian manufacture No. 3143 made in the early 1900s; nautical instrument of fine manufacture.

Antique English "John Parkes & Sons," nautical sextant in original fitted mahogany box. The graduated arc on the sextant is signed by G.

Nautical Sextant with engraved scale "GDE Koning Arnhem, Amsterdam No. 2649".

Brass sextant, unreadable signature, valuable manufacturing instrument from the first half of the 19th century, complete with lenses and placed in its elegant original mahogany box, ...

Mid-19th century English sextant of burnished brass, instrument complete with three telescopes, one of which is long, and a filter and it is in its original mahogany box with brass h...

Good condition.

19th century ship's sextant by A. Cairns, 32 Waterloo Rd. Liverpool. Lattice frame fitted with colored filters in a kidney shaped box with brass badge on lid. Overall dimensions: ...

The sextant is an instrument that allows to measure angles between two objects such as two points of a coast or a star, traditionally the Sun of the earth and the horizon. Knowing th...

The sextant is an instrument that allows to measure angles between two objects such as two points of a coast or a star, traditionally the Sun of the earth and the horizon. Knowing th...

A sextant by W. Gerrard of Liverpool, brass with inset silver scale and mahogany box.

Early 19th century English nautical brass sextant with ebony frame and natural inlay.

This extraordinary 128-piece service by Fabergé is a rare treasure in more ways than one. Enclosed in its original oak chest, the exquisite service remains complete and in pristine c...

A visually striking smaller scale vintage WWII era maritime salvage ship's binnacle pedestal with compass by Sestrel Henry Browne & Son. circa 1940s The beautifully aged heavily pa...

Rare, Spanish Demi-Tester, Baroque Bed With Carved, Green Painted & Gilded Posts 181cm, 6ft High, Floral Painted Leather Headboard, sold with custom made box spring mattress base, ac...

Letto a baldacchino in ferro battuto con pediera e testiera in legno sagomato per poter essere rivestita di tappezzeria. I montanti in ferro battuto come i piedi presentano delle ins...

Rarely seen and even more rarely available Space-Age molded plastic desk manufactured by L'atelier, São Paulo, Brazil. Design attributed to Jorge Zalszupin a Polish naturalized Brazi...

An incredibly rare 18th Century monumental palace size Ottoman Islamic astrolabe on an easel stand, Turkey, circa 1720. This rare palace size Astrolabe on stand is in two sections, t...

Pair of antique brass astrolabes with iron brackets

This antique mast figure is French and as the story goes salvaged off a French Ship damaged in the Anglo-French War (1803–1815). The one side shows fire damage and is burned in charc...

This is an antique cased octant. A Scottish, ebony navigational instrument, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1850. Appealing navigation instrument with fascinating display inte...

It has a cover to protect the lens made of the same gold metal in which the rest of the instrument is made. The lines, pure and clean, are the protagonists, and make it a great opti...

Brass sextant signed H. Hughes & Son Ltd No. 32890 of the 1930s; instrument complete with optics and housed in its original mahogany wood box of with locking hooks and brass handle,...