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    Re: Dating Hughes and Son sextants
    From: Bill Morris
    Date: 2009 Feb 4, 12:57 -0800

    Thanks to Geoffrey, here is an extended list of serial numbers, for the 
    record. Nearly 25,000 were produced during WW II. I wonder where they all 
    went?
    
    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 micrometer screw but no drum
    16740           15.2.30
    17817           5.7.32          
    18795           29.5.35
    19882           24.9.36     
    20463           28.5.37         
    21026           11.12.37
    21453           1938?           
    22992           19.10.39        
    25379           3.1.41
    27096           2.7.41  
    27875           30.10.41        
    28785                 42
    29435           21.4.42
    29792           16.6.42     
    31205           27.8.42     
    31853           15.9.42
    32253           23.11.42
    33178           30.1.43     
    33238           22.1.43
    33588           13.3.43
    34657           20.4.43
    34937           1.6.43          
    35882           27.7.43
    36214           9.9.43
    36716           28.9.43
    36718           28.9.43
    39046           1.12.44
    39323           27.1.44
    40073           1.5.44      
    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    Cost �18 and an extra �4/13/4 
                                for  Lumex scope
    48196           5.1.45          
    48368           26.5.45
    48657           28.6.45
    49066           10.9.45     
    50489           28.10.46        
    51743           4.9.46          
    51737           28.5.46
    51940           26.3.46
    52322           1.5.46      
    54587           1947
    54832           8.8.47          
    55615           13.10.47        
    55829           5.7.47
    57097           31.12.48
    59435           24.9.52
    59636           4.2.53
    61349           23.7.54     
    65955           20.2.59     
    68436           7.10.63
    70982           2.8.68  
    
    Bill Morris 
    
    
    
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