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Subject: Re: Antique Sextant
From: R.H. van Gent (r.h.vangent@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2001 - 17:31:50 EDT
Pierre Boucher wrote:
> Any info's on a brass sextant (antique) labelled on the arc:
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> W.F. Cannon 177 Shadwell, London
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> It is in it's original wooden box complet with 1 sighting tube (no
> magnification) and 2 different scopes.
Hi Pierre,
Gloria Clifton's Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers
1550-1851 (London, 1995), p. 103, mentions a John Ford (fl. 1851-1855)
at 177 Shadwell High Street (London), who is known to have sold an
octant.
An earlier member of the Ford family, William Ford (perhaps the father
of John Ford), resided in Cannon Street (London) in 1764 and was
registered as an optician.
I hope that this helps.
Regards,
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