Federick B. Fink Instrument Company Surveying Tool

St. Louis, Mo. 20th Century. Fink Transit surveying instrument inscribed F. B. Fink. Federick B. Fink was the manager of Keuffel & Esser’s St. Louis sales office in the years 1904 and 1905. In 1905 he incorporated the Fink Instrument Company and began doing business at 105 North Eighth Street. Fink was the president of the Fink Instrument Company from 1905 until 1914. Sometime between 1911 and 1914 the company moved their operation to 804 Pine Street. After 1915 Frederick Fink no longer appears in the St. Louis City Directory. Frederick J. Feineman is listed as president in the years 1916 through 1918. The company was listed as a manufacturer of surveying and mathematical instruments in both Gould’s Red Book for 1912-1913 and Gould’s Red-Blue Book for 1918. Height 6.75 inches, width 11.25 inches._x000D_