I've read and reread the ATM book series since I first owned a set in my teenage years.

So when Skinner Auction House in Boston announced a scientific equipment auction in 2007 that included a Porter Garden Telescope, I had to bid on it!! As luck would have it, I won!! It seems that only two of us bid. Is it perfect - no, it has a replacement primary mirror (assuming that Edmund Scientific didn't exist in 1933  :>)   :>) and a couple other minor imperfections. But overall its in great shape. #53 is the last known instrument made of the 13 now known to exist. I will take good care of it.

I hope to fully document its history and present it here...so stay tuned!