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    Re: Can someone identify this
    From: Robert Eno
    Date: 2008 Nov 11, 21:02 -0500

    The device looks like a different version of a Hagner Position Finder. This
    instrument is illustrated and described in "The Book of the Sextant" by A.J.
    Hughes, published in GB in 1957.
    
    I am tempted to bid on this item.
    
    Robert
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "bruce hamilton" 
    To: 
    Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:40 PM
    Subject: [NavList 6510] Re: Can someone identify this
    
    
    >
    > Thanks for the information. I suspected there might be some on this list
    > who would be interested besides me.  To bid, or not to bid, that is the
    > question.
    >
    > I hope someone here gets it so it will get figured out and used. I would
    > be happily outbid by any one on tis list. :-)
    >
    > Bruce
    >
    >
    > bruce hamilton wrote:
    >> Anyone need something for their collection? What exactly is it?
    >>
    >> 
    http://cgi.ebay.ca/ASTRONOMIC-CALCULATOR-SEXTANT-theodolite_W0QQitemZ190265697439QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item190265697439&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
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