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Sextant Box Numbers: Suggestive Patterns

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	Any sextant marked "FE Brandis" is definitely a pre-1925 or so product.		Any sextant marked "FE Brandis" is definitely a pre-1925 or so product.

			Most of this information has come from the thread in the Forum entitled [https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,183.msg1198.html#msg1198 "Can you add to the list of sextant numbers?"]

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	\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html Assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell,] which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.] The empty sextant box was found on the island and sent to the Western Pacific High Commission in Suva, Fiji, in 1941.		\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html Assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell,] which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.] The empty sextant box was found on the island and sent to the Western Pacific High Commission in Suva, Fiji, in 1941.
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	\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> ~~maybe~~		\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> Yes. We got the two numbers from the Suva "Bones File." That's what started this whole line of research into N.O. numbers!
	\|<!-- Wrong Box / Wrong Sextant -->		\|<!-- Wrong Box / Wrong Sextant -->

Moleski: /* N.O. 1542 assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell */

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N.O. 1542 assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell

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	From Ric Gillespie in the [https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,2040.0.html Amelia Earhart Search Forum, 28 October 2018:]		From Ric Gillespie in the [https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,2040.0.html Amelia Earhart Search Forum, 28 October 2018:]

	Last night, Andrew McKenna called my attention to a report recently posted by a TIGHAR critic that provides what appears to be solid documentation that the sextant box found with the castaway bones in 1940 came from the November, 1939 USS Bushnell survey. The Naval Observatory Number on the box Gallagher found was 1542. That N.O. number is recorded as being among Bushnell sextants sent to the Naval Observatory for "general overhaul" in late 1938. The Bushnell survey of Gardner Island was in November 1939.		Last night, Andrew McKenna called my attention to a report recently posted by a TIGHAR critic that provides what appears to be solid documentation that '''the sextant box found with the castaway bones in 1940 came from the November, 1939 USS Bushnell survey.''' The Naval Observatory Number on the box Gallagher found was 1542. That N.O. number is recorded as being among Bushnell sextants sent to the Naval Observatory for "general overhaul" in late 1938. The Bushnell survey of Gardner Island was in November 1939.

	We’ve lost what always appeared to be a strong link between the castaway and Earhart, but this is nonetheless a positive development. Documented fact is always welcome, and this does not effect the other evidence that says the castaway was Earhart.		We’ve lost what always appeared to be a strong link between the castaway and Earhart, but this is nonetheless a positive development. Documented fact is always welcome, and this does not effect the other evidence that says the castaway was Earhart.

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	\|style="background:#C9E8FF;"\|<!-- Navy No. --> '''''1542'''''		\|style="background:#C9E8FF;"\|<!-- Navy No. --> '''''1542'''''
	\|<!-- Inspection Date -->		\|<!-- Inspection Date -->
	\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html Assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell,] which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.]		\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html Assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell,] which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.] The empty sextant box was found on the island and sent to the Western Pacific High Commission in Suva, Fiji, in 1941.
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	\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> maybe		\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> maybe

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	\|- valign="top" style="background:#efefef;"		\|- valign="top" style="background:#efefef;"
	\|align="right"\|<!-- Maker --> ~~'''''~~Brandis ~~(theoretical''''')~~		\|align="right"\|<!-- Maker --> Brandis
	\|<!-- Maker No. --> '''''3500'''''		\|<!-- Maker No. --> '''''3500'''''
	\|style="background:#C9E8FF;"\|<!-- Navy No. --> '''''1542'''''		\|style="background:#C9E8FF;"\|<!-- Navy No. --> '''''1542'''''
	\|<!-- Inspection Date -->		\|<!-- Inspection Date -->
	\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> ~~'''''Niku'''''~~		\|align="left"\|<!-- Comments --> [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html Assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell,] which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.]
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	\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> maybe		\|<!-- N.O. # on box --> maybe

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What might 3500 and 1542 mean?

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	Fred Noonan [http://www.tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_1/The_Noonan_Project.html loaned a naval sextant to a student of his prior to the fatal flight]. That sextant box is extant and also has two numbers handwritten on the bottom of it: 3547 and 173. But the sextant inside the box is a Ludolph with a different serial number.		Fred Noonan [http://www.tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_1/The_Noonan_Project.html loaned a naval sextant to a student of his prior to the fatal flight]. That sextant box is extant and also has two numbers handwritten on the bottom of it: 3547 and 173. But the sextant inside the box is a Ludolph with a different serial number.

			As indicated in the first section of this article, we now know that 1542 is unquestionably a Naval Observatory number and that the sextant with that number was assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell, which [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.]

	== The Pensacola Sextant Box (3547 and 173) ==		== The Pensacola Sextant Box (3547 and 173) ==

Moleski at 08:19, 31 October 2018

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	When Gallagher did a thorough search of the area near where the skull was found, he discovered an empty sextant box with two numbers on it--3500 and 1542. The British saw no significance in the numbers; in 2008, TIGHAR found an intriguing pattern of dual numbers (maker's number and U.S. Naval Observatory numbers assigned when the instruments were inspected there).		When Gallagher did a thorough search of the area near where the skull was found, he discovered an empty sextant box with two numbers on it--3500 and 1542. The British saw no significance in the numbers; in 2008, TIGHAR found an intriguing pattern of dual numbers (maker's number and U.S. Naval Observatory numbers assigned when the instruments were inspected there).

	In 2018, an independent researcher determined that the sextant had been assigned to the Bushnell.		In 2018, an [http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html independent researcher] determined that the sextant had been assigned to the [https://tighar.org/wiki/USS_Bushnell_Survey_(1939) U.S.S. Bushnell,] which surveyed Gardner Island in 1939.

	~~The Brandis sextant boxes pictured here are approximately 10" x 10" x 5"~~.

	== N.O. 1542 assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell ==		== N.O. 1542 assigned to the U.S.S. Bushnell ==

Moleski at 08:17, 31 October 2018

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 [[Image:Pensbottom.jpg|thumb|right|Loaned by Fred Noonan to a student.]]
 When Gallagher did a thorough search of the area near where the skull was found, he discovered an empty sextant box with two numbers on it--3500 and 1542.  The British saw no significance in the numbers; in 2008, TIGHAR found an intriguing pattern of dual numbers (maker's number and U.S. Naval Observatory numbers assigned when the instruments were inspected there).
 The Brandis sextant boxes pictured here are approximately 10" x 10" x 5".
 == Notes from the [[bones file]] ==