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1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co

1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co

1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co
This is a nice full size Heller Brightly pillar mining transit, t. His is one of only a couple of this type mining transit known to exist. The optics and cross hairs are in great shape, the motions turn smoothly and it comes with the original box. Here is some information on the firm of Heller and Brightly. Heller (18391912) was born in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States in the late 1840s.

He went to work for William J. Young in 1855, and became a partner in William J.

Brightly (18171897) was born in England, arrived in the United States in the 1830s, and worked as a machinist in Philadelphia before going into partnership with Heller in 1870. Within a few years Heller & Brightly were said to have done more than any other [firm] in this country of late years to increase competition in the trade, and to wake up the different makers to a sense of the many improvements that may be made in the instruments in common use. Heller & Brightly was a traditional craft workshop. And were used in every state in the union, and in several foreign countries..

There were only a few employees at any one time, each could produce an entire instrument, and each was reasonably well paid. They produced some 100 instruments per year from 1870 to 1887. Annual production rose to 216 instruments in 1891, then dropped precipitously and remained at modest levels thereafter. Each instrument has a serial number, the first being #4000. The firm was incorporated in 1926, and remained in business until 1968. Miller, "The Heller & Brightly Records, " Rittenhouse 4 (1990): 4355.

The item "1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co" is in sale since Saturday, March 23, 2019. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Science & Medicine (1930-Now)\Engineering\Surveying Equipment". The seller is "klony" and is located in Kalispell, Montana. This item can be shipped worldwide.

  • Product Type: Surveying Equipment


1886 Heller Brightly Pillar Type Double Scope Mining Transit Susquehanna Coal Co