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Re: Dating Hughes and Son sextants
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2009 Feb 04, 10:29 +0000
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2009 Feb 04, 10:29 +0000
That is useful Bill - here are a few more culled from ebay. 25379 3.1.41 27875 30.10.41 39323 27.1.44 52322 1.5.46 36214 9.9.43 33588 13.3.43 16740 15.2.30 18795 29.5.35 19882 24.9.36 25379 3.1.41 29435 21.4.42 32253 23.11.42 34657 20.4.43 36716 28.9.43 36718 28.9.43 39046 1.12.44 40073 1.5.44 48657 28.6.45 49066 10.9.45 51940 26.3.46 54832 8.8.47 57097 31.12.48 59636 4.2.53 61349 23.7.54 70982 2.8.68 Geoffrey Kolbe At 08:53 04/02/2009, you wrote: > > >As a result of acquiring a Husun sextant that I could not date because it >had no box or certificate, I have been collecting Hughes and Son serial >numbers. Fortunately, their nautical sextants appear to have consecutive >numbers, with the series probably beginning around about the year 1900. >The date of the inspection certificate can be only a rough guide to date >of manufacture and numbers, e.g 42930, are occasionally out of sequence. I >would like to fill in more gaps, especially before 1940. Perhaps other >readers of NavList can help? > > Hughes and Son Sextant Serial Numbers > >4722 1905? >8550 12.1919 >9730 12.1919 >10375 2.1920 >10999 8.1920 >14344 1.11.30 >15713 Vernier sextant with tangent micrometer screw >17817 5.7.32 >18795 29.5.35 >20463 28.5.37 >21026 11.12.37 >21453 1938? >22992 19.10.39 >27096 2.7.41 >28785 42 >29792 16.6.42 >31205 27.8.42 >31853 15.9.42 >33178 30.1.43 >33238 22.1.43 >34937 1.6.43 >35882 27.7.43 >41387 24.5.44 >42930 18.8.47 (Year has been re-typed on cert.) >44371 30.10.44 >45247 12.3.45 >46193 1.1.45 >46749 21.2.45 >48146 7.4.45 >48196 5.1.45 >48368 26.5.45 >50489 28.10.46 >51743 4.9.46 >51737 28.5.46 >54587 1947 >55615 13.10.47 >55829 5.7.47 >59435 24.9.52 >65955 20.2.59 >68436 7.10.63 > >Bill Morris >Pukenui >New Zealand > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---