Object data
iron and brass
height 9 cm × width 12.4 cm × depth 2 cm
anonymous
Tangent Sight
Netherlands, 1845 - 1865
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-30
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Tangent sight to be mounted on to the rear of the vent patch of a gun, the support gripping the vent patch with a notch in a square indentation and secured with a bolt. The sight itself is a short iron bar, which can be moved up and down; the top of the sight is shaped like a pyramid with grooves across.
This tangent sight was found without a catalogue number. The identification was by a process of elimination.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Tangent Sight, Netherlands, 1845 - 1865', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245266
(accessed 23 November 2024 23:04:44).