
Jon Baddeley
Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
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Provenance:
From the collection of Dr MacKinnon.
Joseph Hurt was a renowned optician known to have sold instruments from 1736-1748, advertising a comprehensive range of optical and mathematical material. Hurt was apprenticed to Ralph Sterrop in 1729, but within six years was operating under his own name at Archimedes & Three Golden Spectacles in Ludgate Street, London. In this same year he was called to the Guild of Spectaclemakers. Occasionally Hurt advertised with the alternative surname of Hurst.