Backstaff
date: label: date made
content: 1738
name: label: maker
content: John Holbeche
notes: label: Description
content: The frame of this instrument is rosewood, while the arcs, cross bar, and sights are boxwood. The boxwood inset is inscribed "Made.by.John.Holbeche.for Capt Joseph.Swan.1738." John Holbeche advertised an Instrument Maker & Ship-Chandler at the Corner of the Hermitage in London.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, <i>Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851</i> (London, 1995), p. 138.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318439
label: catalog number
content: 318439
label: accession number
content: 234475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Backstaff
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in; 63.5 cm