RUS Quadrant KI-1 – lot 0203
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Auction Expired
- No Reserve
- Margin
- Buyer's premium 16.5 % of the hammer price and VAT according General Conditions
- Location: Nederweert The Netherlands
- Estimated Price: Euro 100,- Euro 150,-
Description:
Soviet Russian WW II Gunners Quadrant serial E 1544, having an adjustable spirit level with 7–50-degree scale, in original wooden box. The Gunner's Quadrant is a portable precision leveling instrument used for laying artillery weapons in elevation, measuring their angles of elevation, and checking the elevation mechanisms of fire control equipment. The Gunner's Quadrant is used with various rifles, guns, gun carriages, self-propelled guns, howitzers, mortars, anti-aircraft gun mounts, cannons, tracked armored landing vehicles, and multiple rocket launchers.
This WW-II Soviet made clinometer is a steel measuring instrument, used to gauge angles of slope, elevation and depression.
The device features three flat sides, making up the frame, which can each be used as a base to determine different angles.
The first is engraved with, "DIRECTION / OF TARGET" and is used for angles between 0 till 7–50 degrees.
The second side has also a flat foot, and is engraved with, 7-50 – 15-00 degree and is used in the same way as the first, but for another angle.
The third side is an ovular shape and is engraved with, "No E 1544”. The frame houses a central arm with a scale of 0-05 to 0-25 minutes.
This arm holds an adjustable spirit or bubble level which slides along the scale, while the whole arm can be adjusted along a further arched scale on the outer frame.
The case for the clinometer is made from an unfinished timber, painted green and features a hinged lid and one hook clasp on the side for securing the lid. The side of the box has a ID plate. The interior contains three felt covered squares on both sides, to act as padding for the clinometer.