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Welcome To Survey Instrument Antique Center!

This site is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of surveying instrumentation.  Here you will find information on instruments, products for sale, restoration services and many other items regarding survey instrumentation and surveying history.  Gathering this information is very time consuming.  You will find many resources here and additional links to other sites to help fill in gaps. 

Please be patient as we are adding data almost on a daily basis.
 
We Buy & Sell  Antique Surveying Instruments & Parts
We are always looking for old instruments and maybe you have one sitting around in the garage, basement or attic.  Why not make some money and sell it to us?

Consignment Sales
We can work with you to get the most out of the sale of your antique survey instrument.  Read More

Thinking Of Selling Your Survey Instrument?
We can buy your instruments outright so contact us before you list your survey instrument on EBay if you want to save 10% right off the top.  We will give you an honest evaluation of the instrument all without the hassles and costs of selling on EBay.  Read More

We pay top dollar for:
Pre-1900 U.S. Made Instruments - Solar or Mining Attachments - Gurley Transits - K&E Transits - Buff & Buff Transits - Buff & Berger Transits - C. L. Berger & Sons Transits - and Many Others...........

We Also Buy Old Survey Instrument Parts:
Do Not throw away those old parts that are laying around!  We may be interested in purchasing them, so why not make some money off those old parts you do not know what to do with.  Read More

ATTENTION GURLEY OWNERS....................WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!

We are writing a book and we need your help.  We are looking for photographs of 1845 - 1860 Gurley transits.  These can be of any Phelps & Gurley, Phelps & Gurleys, and W. & L. E. Gurley transits.  We are also looking for photographs of old Hanks transits as well.  We would prefer Color Digital Photographs but since these are hard to find we will take just about anything.

We would like to hear from you so please email us if you can help.

Thanks for your time and help.


Help Support This Site
As most realize maintaining and supporting a website can be very time consuming and requires a lot of work and expense.  We would like to ask that if you find our information helpful or enjoyable and you would like to help create a better web experience that you make a small donation. 

Whether you are researching an instrument to sell on EBay or just enjoy the history of these instruments your donations will help pay for the site maintenance and up keep and allow us to continue to offer this great information. 

Any amount helps and you can choose just how much you want to donate.

 

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