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==
Henry Hughes
London, England
Paget Angle Sextant (1900), Brass sextants (1920)

Kelvin & Hughes
London, England
Huson (1986?)
==
One or the other existed up to or beyond WW II as "Hugeson" or "Huson".
I no longer have the two once in my possession.

Tony

> Dan Allen wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever seen an attempt at a comprehensive list of sextant manufacturers?  I know that it
> would be hard to cover the 1700s, and even the 1800s, but perhaps we could make a collective stab
> at it for the 1900s?  (There is an interesting site for surveying instruments at:
> http://www.surveyhistory.org/ that is kind of what I am thinking about for sextants, octants,
> etc.)
>
> I have used Peter Ifland's Taking the Stars as well as Bruce Bauer's The Sextant Handbook as a
> starting point with the list below.  It is ordered by country and will eventually get more
> organized.
>
>
> Current Sextant Manufacturers (2000)
>
> C. Plath
> Hamburg, Germany
> Navistar Classic, Navistar Traditional, Navistar Professional
>
> Cassens & Plath
> Bremerhaven, Germany
> Horizon Ultra, Standard
>
> Freiberger
> Eastern Germany (where?)
> Drum Sextant
>
> Tamaya & Company Limited
> Tokyo, Japan
> Spica, Jupiter, Venus (discontinued?)
>
> Changzhou Celestaire Instrument Co
> China (where?)
> Astra IIIB
>
> Davis Instruments Corp.
> Hayward, California
> Mark 25, Mark 15, Mark 3
>
>
>
> Sextant Manufacturers (1900 and later, now out of the sextant business)
>
> J. Hicks
> London, England
> Box sextant (1900)
>
> Cary
> London, England
> 4" and 6" (1904)
>
> G. W. Heath
> London, England
> Hezzanith (1909), 8" Explorer's Kit (1920)
>
> Henry Hughes
> London, England
> Paget Angle Sextant (1900), Brass sextants (1920)
>
> Kelvin & Hughes
> London, England
> Huson (1986?)
>
> B. Cooke & Son, Ltd.
> Hull, England
> The Kingston (1986?)
>
> Francis Barker & Son
> England (where?)
> Small Craft Precision Sextant (1988)
>
> East Berks Boat Co. (EBBCO)
> Berkshire, England
> Two plastic models (1986?)
>
> Stanley
> London, England
> Nautical Sextant (1911)
> (Replica sextants may still be made which are not suitable for navigation)
>
> Fuji
> Japan
> Toyo Sokki (1900?)
>
> Toizaki and Company
> Shi Chiba-Ken, Japan
> Junior
>
> Asahi Optical
> Tokyo, Japan
> ?
>
> Keuffel & Esser
> New York, New York
> US Navy Sextant
>
> Bausch & Lomb Optical, Co.
> Rochester, New York
> US Army A-8A (1942)
>
> Agfa-Ansco
> Binghamton, New York
> US Army A-10 (1942)
>
> Fairchild Camera and Instruments Corporation
> New York, New York
> US Army A-10A (1944)
>
> Link Aviation Devices
> Binghamton, New York
> US Army A-12 (1941)
>
> David White Co.
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> US Navy Mark II (1943)
>
> Pioneer Instrument Company
> Brooklyn, New York
> US Navy Mark III (1937)
>
> Scientific Instruments, Inc.
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> US Navy Mark III (1977)
>
> Bendix Aviation, Pioneer Instrument Division
> Bendix, New Jersey
> US Navy Mark IV (1941)
>
> Kollsman Instrument Corporation
> Elmhurst, New York
> MA1, MA2 (1956)
>
> Mergenthaler Linotype Company
> Brooklyn, New York
> Ball Recording Sextant (1944)
>
> ---
>
> Additions, corrections, and comments are welcomed!
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel K. Allen, Visual Sea
> danallen@nwlink.com
> www.nwlink.com/~danallen/
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