Important note: Most of these instruments are not in the Adler collection (which you can find more information about here). We know nothing about them beyond the information returned by searching this database. You may be able to learn more by contacting the institutions in the "Instruments" column, or by consulting the "References" listed.
Your search for "parkes" yielded 7 entries. Displaying entries 1–7.| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References | Suggest Correction |
| PARKES AND HADLEY | England, MIM | Orrery, planets missing = Lub and Himmel, April 1965; Orrery, sun and moon missing = Grimwades 10/25/90. | "patented." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| PARKES, I. | England, OIM | Spyglass = P.C.(1967). | London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| PARKES, JAMES, AND SON | England, c.1850, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Microscopes = Wellcome Museum, D.(1969), D.(1976), Christie-SK 2/8/79, Phillips 2/14/79; Sextant = D.(1975); Surveying Instrument = D.(1977); Telescopes = American Art Galleries, Chicago, Ill. 3/18/75, Christie-SK 7/10/80. | showed in the Great Exhibition of 1851, London. | 5 and 6 St. Mary's Row, Birmingham. | Bryden 9; G.L'E. Turner 24; Moskowitz 112; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| PARKES, JOHN AND SONS | England, 19th Century, NIM | Sextant = Charles 6/10/79. | T.C. in sextant box. | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| PARKES, SAMUEL | England, fl.1777-1818, MIM | rule and compass maker. | 8 Sand Street (1777); St. Mary's Row (1787); Legge Street (1797-1801); all in Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| PARKES, SAMUEL, AND SON | England, fl.1808-18, MIM | rule makers, worked in boxwood and ivory. | Bull Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| SPARKES, GEORGE | England, c.1715, | apprenticed to Edmund Culpeper 1 of the Grocers' Company, on March 5, 1713; turned over to John Wolmesley on Sept. 21, 1715. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction |
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