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Re: Sextant manufacturers
From: Michael Daly
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 14:14 -0400
From: Michael Daly
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 14:14 -0400
Alexandre E Eremenko wrote: > In certain case I can provide a date when some sextant was > made (or certified) by a particular maker, but > I don't see how to find any more details about history > of particular manufacturers (except some few very > famous ones). Some historians have written articles on these makers in various history periodicals that not only list makers' corporate lifespans but provide data that relate serial numbers to the year of manufacture (e.g. Alan Stimson for Troughton). Some books also list manufacturers with start and end dates (G. Turner 19th century instruments book, for example). Yesterday I looked through a biography of J. Arnold and his son that had an appendix listing many of their chronometers with the entire service life - year of manufacture and year assigned to each vessel and year retired. As a wannabe collector (lacking money, mostly), I have found a lot of info and can help out with the dates of older makers. Would you consider putting the list on Wikipedia so others could add and modify the info? It could be a "List of sextant manufacturers" page linked to the sextant and the reflecting instruments pages. Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---