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Re: Two 19th century octants
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2017 Mar 23, 21:02 -0700
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2017 Mar 23, 21:02 -0700
Steven,
Lewis Wolff was a watch and clock maker of 35 Castle Street, Liverpool, active between 1834 and 1851. It was (and still is) common for makers to sell un-named instruments for retailers to add their names, and there was probably only a large handful of firms actually capable of making a sextant (I include all doubly reflecting instruments under this head). I doubt that Woolf was one of them. Some may have bought the frames and other bits to finish and assemble themselves. This was certainly the case too with chronometers.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
