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Re: Husun sextant
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2024 Jan 2, 16:19 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2024 Jan 2, 16:19 -0500
Here are the serial numbers of Husun sextants. I got the info from pictures on Ebay. 32023 plops in there right before Nov, 1942,
4659 vernier 1902 three circle?, March vernier 4659 1902
5801 vernier 1904 2/?/04 vernier 5801 1904
7243 vernier 1917 Plath type, class B, August 1917 vernier 7243 1917
7733 vernier 1916 three circle, December vernier 7733 1916
8935 vernier 1919 three circle, perfect arc August, 1919, no telescopes, vertigris vernier 8935 1919
9906 vernier 1920 January Plath type, but seller says 3-circle! Superb condition vernier 9906 1920
10278 vernier 1920 three circle vernier 10278 1920
10862 vernier 1920 three circle June, 1920 vernier 10862 1920 621.00
12436 vernier 1 three circle, repainted and polished, no evidence of case, one long telescope vernier 12436 1 192.50
12923 vernier 1920 3 circle, Sept, 2 telescopes, extra eye piece, and sight tube vernier 12923 1920
13502 vernier 1921 March Plath type, endless tangent screw with release vernier 13502 1921
13569 vernier 1921 Sept Plath type vernier 13569 1921
14139 vernier 1924 ? 3/8/24? Plath type, endless tangent screw with release vernier 14139 1924
15212 vernier 1926 9/3/26 vernier 15212 1926
16740 micrometer 1930 2/15/30 micrometer 16740 1930 383.89
18795 micrometer 1935 29 May micrometer 18795 1935
19882 micrometer 1936 24 Sept, no instrument error, no telescope, only peep sight, wooden handle micrometer 19882 1936
20787 micrometer 1937 H.HUGES & SON LTD.LONDON.DATED 6.9.37, no instrument error micrometer 20787 1937 330.00
22515 micrometer 1939 6/19/39 scale to 135 very clean, horizon mirror adjustment knobs not brass, 2.5x telescope not brass, 5* marks not from top to bottom, Husun badge on index arm brass, not white metal, no felt in box, finish not crinkled, brass screws holding lamp cord at pivot, brass screw as stop for horizon mirror micrometer 22515 1939
22888 vernier 1939 vernier 22888 1939
23833 vernier 1940 3/2/40 7" 3-circle, no instr error vernier 23833 1940
24816 micrometer 1941 12/2/41 3-circle, 2.5x, 5x & 9x telescopes, not a black crinkle finish ?2/12/41? micrometer 24816 1941
25410 mictrometer 1941 2/28/41 3-circle, 2.5x, 5x & ?9x? telescopes, black crinkle finish, no instr error mictrometer 25410 1941
25410 micrometer 1941 2/28/41 perfect arc, multiple telescopes micrometer 25410 1941
25966 micrometer 1946 MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERVICED IN 1946 micrometer 25966 1946
29939 micrometer 1941 micrometer 29939 1941
30268 micrometer 1942 7/30/42 micrometer 30268 1942
31240 micrometer 1942 4//43? has alignment telescope micrometer 31240 1942 405.00
31674 micrometer 1942 16/2/43? 16/6/43? 31673? micrometer 31674 1942
31746 micrometer 1942 has alignment telescope micrometer 31746 1942
31768 micrometer 1942 has alignment telescope micrometer 31768 1942 585.55
32253 micrometer 1942 11/23/42 micrometer 32253 1942
32790 micrometer 1943 1/4/43 micrometer 32790 1943
33054 micrometer 1943 2/25/43 micrometer 33054 1943
34657 micrometer 1943 April 20, 1943; sailing, small radius, read 1 min arc micrometer 34657 1943
35862 fake 1943 7/27/43 fake 35862 1943
35977 micrometer 1943 8/17/43 micrometer 35977 1943
36214 micrometer 1943 Sept 9, 1943 micrometer 36214 1943
36529 micrometer 1943 10/18/43, had 5x scope as well as 2x, Mate, no error on the arc, brass handle micrometer 36529 1943 455.00
36716 micrometer 1943 9/28/43 micrometer 36716 1943
36718 micrometer 1943 Sept 28, 1943 micrometer 36718 1943 300.00
37290 micrometer 1943 10/30/43 two scopes, three eyepieces, no errors, 6" arc micrometer 37290 1943
37483 micrometer 1943 11/2/43 serial number has an "A" at the end micrometer 37483 1943
39046 micrometer 1944 1/12/44 micrometer 39046 1944
39377 micrometer 1944 2/16/44 micrometer 39377 1944
40073 micrometer 1944 1/5/44 micrometer 40073 1944 277.00
40505 micrometer 1944 micrometer 40505 1944
41954 micrometer 1944 6/19/44 micrometer 41954 1944 280.00
43132 micrometer 1944 7/31/44 micrometer 43132 1944 468.88
44035 micrometer 1944 11/2/44 micrometer 44035 1944 227.50
44088 micrometer 1944 micrometer 44088 1944
44164 micrometer 1944 micrometer 44164 1944
46676 micrometer 1945 2/17/45 micrometer 46676 1945
46706 micrometer 1945 micrometer 46706 1945
46977 micrometer 1945 micrometer 46977 1945 276.10
48203 micrometer 1945 5/3/45 no errors, has sight tube and extra telescope, maybe 4x, but not on certificate micrometer 48203 1945
48460 micrometer 1945 micrometer 48460 1945
48657 micrometer 1945 6/28/45 micrometer 48657 1945
49066 micrometer 1945 9/10/45 micrometer 49066 1945
49659 micrometer 1945 11/27/45 polished down to brass! micrometer 49659 1945
50117 micrometer 3-ring, grey admiralty, two telescopes, three eyepieces, two ocular shades lattice frame micrometer 50117
50324 micrometer 1946 3/4/46 Gothic, lattice micrometer 50324 1946
50667 micrometer 1946 Gothic, lattice 6/6/46, Natl Physical Lab micrometer 50667 1946
51940 micrometer 1946 3/26/46 micrometer 51940 1946 346.83
51974 micrometer 1946 7/24/46 micrometer 51974 1946
52061 micrometer 1946 5/2/46 micrometer 52061 1946
54316 micrometer 1947 micrometer 54316 1947
54434 micrometer ? micrometer 54434
54832 micrometer 1947 8/8/47 micrometer 54832 1947
55072 micrometer 1948 My sexant micrometer 55072 1948 208.00
55726 micrometer 1947 5/30/47 DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A HUSUN: A FAKE micrometer 55726 1947
56687 micrometer 1950 9/8/50 stadimeter micrometer 56687 1950
57097 micrometer 1948 12/31/48 micrometer 57097 1948
59636 micrometer 1953 2/4/53 micrometer 59636 1953 305.00
60641 micrometer 1952 micrometer 60641 1952
61349 micrometer 1954 7/23/54, two telescopes micrometer 61349 1954 287.00
62439 micrometer 1954 9/29/54, scruffy micrometer 62439 1954
67414 micrometer 1962 micrometer 67414 1962
67922 micrometer 1965 6/5/65, mate aluminum?, no light micrometer 67922 1965
68449 micrometer 1963 9/9/63, mate grey crinkle, no light, considerable error, reads to 0.2' not 6", arc grey or aluminum micrometer 68449 1963
68449 micrometer 1963 9/9/63 micrometer 68449 1963
69236 micrometer 1979 9/7/79 3 circle, 2.5x telescope, small mirrors ?79? micrometer 69236 1979
70019 micrometer 1966 mate grey, no light micrometer 70019 1966
70982 micrometer 1968 8/2/68 micrometer 70982 1968
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