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    Dating Hughes and Son sextants
    From: Bill Morris
    Date: 2009 Feb 4, 00:53 -0800

    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
    
    
    
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