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A brass astronomical transit instrument by Charles Augustus Schmalcalder, London, circa 1820.
Signed: Schmalcalder 82 Strand, London.
Telescope with rack and pinion focusing. Length: 24 inch - 61 cm. Lens cap.
Objective lens:1 inch and 5/8th.
6 inch repeating diameter circle, with level.
Striding level.
Width of stand: 34cm.
Charles Augustus Schmalcalder, 1786 – 1843. Optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker.
Traded at 6 Little Newport St. (1806-7), Strand (1812), 82 Strand (1810-26) & 399 Strand(1827-40), London, England.
Born Karl August Schmalkalder on 29th March 1781, in Stuttgart, Germany. He came to England in about 1800.
He worked in partnership with his son John Thomas Schmalcalder. On his retirement in 1839 the business was continued by his son.
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