Lewis Swift found NGC 1450 = Sw. V-56 = LM 1-113 = LM 1-114 on 22 Oct 1886 with the 16" refractor at Warner Observatory. His position is 16 seconds of RA due east of PGC 13775. Ormond Stone discovered this galaxy earlier in 1886 at the Leander McCormick Observatory and described a double nebula with separation 0.5' (only one galaxy is listed in NED and LEDA).

Frank Muller (also from the LM Observatory) noted the equivalence with Stone's object in a Sidereal Messenger article (Feb 1887) that listed nebulae from Swift's 5th catalogue which had been discovered previously. As a result Dreyer assigned a single NGC designation, crediting both Swift and Stone. As the LM discovery list was submitted to the Astronomical Journal on 12 Oct 1886, Stone made the earlier discovery. Herbert Howe measured an accurate position in 1899-00 using the 20" refractor at Chamberlin Observatory (repeated in the IC 2 notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (11/17/01): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, 0.7'x0.5' SSW-NNE. Several faint galaxies are situated nearby. LEDA 994022 is 2.4' N and I recorded a very faint star or galaxy at or near this position. But even closer (1.7' W) is the brighter edge-on LEDA 993557, which I apparently missed, so I'm not confident of the observation.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb