Object data
iron
length 20.9 cm × width 1 cm
anonymous
Tangent Sight
Netherlands, 1860 - 1870
Inscriptions
- inscription: G / 61
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-29-B
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Iron tangent sight consisting of an iron bar, the top shaped like a pyramid with grooves across the top. On one side a scale is engraved that runs from 0 to 18. The distance between the numbers is exactly 1 cm.
This tangent sight was found, together with another, larger one (NG-MC-1889-29-A), without a catalogue number. Both were identified by a process of elimination. They also both fit the tangent sight support of NG-MC-1374.
Literature
H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, p. 1150, pl. XXXVIII, fig. 283
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Tangent Sight, Netherlands, 1860 - 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.359829
(accessed 30 April 2024 11:13:56).