Early (1600-1700s) Carved Navigational Sextant Component with Angles and Monogram dutch linen I just love its immediacy

I just love its immediacy and directness and the relative crudeness of her fantastic profile

extravagant week-long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re-defining the city as "the Athens of the West"

24 collotype plates

super sturdy and good looking

6 3/4" tall x 2 3/8" wide x 5 3/8" long

Early (1600-1700s) Carved Navigational Sextant Component with Angles and Monogram dutch linen I just love its immediacyI really love measuring tools of all sorts, and know there are a few of you out there who do, too and this is such an old one, I could not resist. I am quite sure it is a piece of a navigational instrument, and believe part of a sextant, used to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. (A moveable arm, probably made of brass, would have attached to the corner from the back.) Really rare