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    Re: Why a silver index scale?
    From: Fred Hebard
    Date: 2016 Mar 27, 11:19 -0400
    I’m not home to look at my Husun for confirmation, but I recall the contrast on the silver arc being good, with the engraved parts tarnished and the surrounding area a bright silver color.  So readability may have been a reason for choice of silver.  Also, would readability have been especially important for vernier instruments, which were still being sold until March of 1940?

    Fred Hebard


       
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