Sold for:
$4,025

Solar Transit by W. & L.E. Gurley, Troy, New York, with Burt Solar attachment, 11-inch telescope, vertical arc, 6 1/2-inch compass, and four-screw foot, ht. 16 in., with accessories in fitted mahogany case with Oswald Griner, Kansas City retailer's label, (incomplete) leather outer case, and tripod. N.B. A similar instrument was sold at Skinner's Science and Technology auction on July 19, 1997, lot 11.


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Date:
2001-03-31

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