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Re: Captain Pike's Sextant
From: David Pike
Date: 2022 May 25, 10:58 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2022 May 25, 10:58 -0700
I'm pretty sure the smaller item is a sun dial. The reason is, I bought one of these. It was so unuseable that I found an excuse, of which there were many, and sent it back. A box sextant would have had a brass drum outer cover and a brass drum inner cover over the mirrors. I also bought one of these. That too was highly inaccurate, but I kept it to show an example of what Chichester was probably using flying from New Zealand to Australia. His would have been a real one. Currently advertised examples are:
Sun Dial. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252694084703
Drum sextant: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354073173089
DaveP
