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View full screenArtificial glass horizon, circular anodized brass plate on three levelling feet with ivory knobs, covered with a blackened glass plate (mirror), with spirit level, in fitted wooden box, as used on the Antarctic Expedition of 1901, signed and made by Watkins and Hill of London, c. 1850
T.1911.43
Francis Watkins and William Hill, Instrument maker
London, England, Northern Europe
c. 1850
Anodised brass, Brass, Ivory, Glass
Black glass, glass spirit level
Previous owner: Admiralty
Antarctic Expedition