Signature |
Maker |
Instruments |
Comments |
Location |
References |
GAITSKILL, JOHN |
England, fl.1793-1823, NIM |
Hadley's Quadrants = MYS (1793), ADL-A53 (1823), Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass., Maine Historical Soc., Portland, Stadt Museum, Aberna, Denmark, P.C.(1969); Quadrants = Marine Historical Assoc.,Conn., P.C.(1974); Octant, ebony and ivory, 1793 = Soth. 2/28/80. |
the octant was made for William Sanford Brown; many instruments are signed "J. Gaitskill"; ADL made for George James in 1823. |
332 Wapping; 329 Wapping; both in London. |
Price 2; USNM; ADL; RSW. |
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