The East India Company
The Company gave prizes of instruments to the best students at its training school [1, 3]. Instruments which belonged to the company itself carry a distinctive heart-shaped mark [4, 5].
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Related Objects:
- Inventory No. 33388, "Sextant, by Gilbert, London, c. 1839" [1926-20], Gilbert
- Inventory No. 15046, "East India Company Coin Weight for Copper Half Pice, Bombay, 1791", East India Co.
- Inventory No. 35300, "Sextant Owned by Tennant, by Troughton and Simms, London, 1847" [1928-53], Troughton & Simms
- Inventory No. 46637, "Semicircular Protractor with Index Arm, by Troughton & Simms, London, Late 19th Century" [1961-138/24a], Troughton & Simms
- Inventory No. 54241, "Gunner's Callipers, by Gilbert, London, c.1825", Gilbert