Welcome to the NavList Message Boards.

NavList:

A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding

Compose Your Message

Message:αβγ
Add Images & Files
    Name or NavList Code:
    Email:
       
    Reply
    Chas. C. Hutchinson sextant
    From: Jackson McDonald
    Date: 2018 Feb 11, 22:23 +0000


    I have attached some photos of a Chas. C. Hutchinson sextant acquired for a (very) modest sum in an obscure on-line auction.  This sextant and a few other nautical items were up for auction in Missouri in what appears to have been an estate sale.  I entered the minimum bid and won.  


    The sextant is very lightly used and shows no signs of corrosive damage from salt water or salt air.  It has all the bits and pieces, except the key to the wooden case.      


    Hutchinson was a well-established purveyor of nautical and surveying instruments in Boston in the latter 1800s and early 1900s.  See link below.  He appears to have imported many or all of his merchandise from England.    


    Two mentions are engraved on the arc of the sextant:   “Chas. C. Hutchinson. Boston ” and “ENGLISH.” 


    This sextant appears to be a well-made but rather ordinary instrument.  What is extraordinary, however, is that it survived in such fine condition.   


    I apologize for the mediocre quality of the photos.  It's about the best I could do with an iPhone camera and natural lighting.  The photos show the sextant in untouched, as-found condition.    


    JMcD

     

    https://books.google.com/books?id=vxxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=chas.+hutchinson+boston+nautical&source=bl&ots=h5ynruhEV1&sig=DTd6LEFMAj8wFQr9is758P0nsbg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ18K9657ZAhXPzlMKHfpXDYY4ChDoAQhLMAk#v=onepage&q=chas.%20hutchinson%20boston%20nautical&f=false


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


    File:


       
    Reply
    Browse Files

    Drop Files

    NavList

    What is NavList?

    NavList is a community devoted to the preservation and practice of celestial navigation and other methods of traditional position-finding. We're a group of navigators, navigation enthusiasts and hobbyists, mathematicians and physicists, and historians interested in all aspects of navigation but primarily those techniques which are non-electronic.

    To post a message, if you are already signed up as a NavList member, start a new discussion or reply to any posted message and use your posting code (this is a simple low-security password assigned when you join). You may also join by posting. Your first on-topic messsage automatically makes you a member, and a posting code will be assigned and emailed to you for future posts.

    Uniquely, the NavList message boards also permit full interaction entirely by email. You can optionally receive individual posts or daily digests by email, and any member can post messages by email (bypassing the web site) by sending to our posting address which is "NavList@NavList.net". This functionality is similar to a traditional Internet mailing list: post by email, read by email, reply by email. Most members will prefer the web interface here for posting and replying to messages.

    NavList is more than an online community... more about that another day.

    © Copyright notice: please note that the rights to all messages and posts in this discussion group are held by their respective authors. No messages or text or images extracted from messages may be reproduced without the explicit consent of the message author. Email me, Frank Reed, if you have any questions.

    Join / Get NavList ID Code

    Name:
    (please, no nicknames or handles)
    Email:
    Do you want to receive all group messages by email?
    Yes No

    A NavList ID Code guarantees your identity in NavList posts and allows faster posting of messages.

    Retrieve a NavList ID Code

    Enter the email address associated with your NavList messages. Your NavList code will be emailed to you immediately.
    Email:

    Email Settings

    NavList ID Code:

    Custom Index

    Subject:
    Author:
    Start date: (yyyymm dd)
    End date: (yyyymm dd)

    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site