Pocket sextant

[John Liddle]

These were used in the horizontal orientation by the Army in WW1 to assist gun aiming (rather than for the conventional Naval use of determing position from the time and the sun's position at noon).

There are cheap Indian knock-off versions freely available on EBay, but genuine items such as this one are rather fewer in number and fetch rather more.



Pocket Sextant by John Liddle, on Flickr

[Trev B]

A great bit of kit in it's day, a far cry from what is used to day. If only it could talk what a tale it would be able to tell.

[Bill53]

A precision piece of engineering quality.

[El Sid]

A fine shot of an interesting instrument.

[Colin W]

Interesting item in a nice photo.

[ColytonJohn]

Nice well lit image of an interesting subject John

Cheers,
John