TOWNSHEND, CHARLES HERVEY, CAPT. |
USA, 1833-1904, NIM |
Double Reflecting Circles = MYS, Kelton Coll. (1990). |
patented a double reflecting circle in 1888, signing "C.H. Townsend" on patent; model is in the New Haven Colony Historical Society; Moskowitz had one unsigned but marked as based on Townshend's 1888 patent; five reflecting circles are at Mystic Seaport; later ones were made by Stackpole and Bro., New York, N.Y.; at least one of the MYS circles may be signed "Capt. Henry Hervey Townshend." |
New Haven, Conn. |
RSW. |
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