Early (1600-1700s) Carved Navigational Sextant Component with Angles and Monogram dutch linen I just love its immediacy

I just love its immediacy and directness and the relative crudeness of her fantastic profile

but I really love it now just as an object

but is impossible to read now

as a whole

Early (1600-1700s) Carved Navigational Sextant Component with Angles and Monogram dutch linen I just love its immediacyI really love measuring tools of all sorts, and know there are a few of you out there who do, too and this is such an old one, I could not resist. I am quite sure it is a piece of a navigational instrument, and believe part of a sextant, used to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. (A moveable arm, probably made of brass, would have attached to the corner from the back.) Really rare