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Re: Ebay Sextant?????????
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Nov 9, 11:18 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Nov 9, 11:18 -0500
The EBay listing cites an aluminum frame, which I'm not sure C. Plath ever used, or, if they did, up in the 60s. On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > The frame looks exactly like a frame > of an old Soviet SN or SNO-M sextant. > (These old Soviet sextants were probably > modeled on C Plath, but I've never seen > a C. Plath with exactly this shape of frame). > Where does the arm come from I could not > determine. > The scope is obviously not from this sextant > (as many people noticed). > And they seem to have painted the teeth of the arc(!) > > Alex > >> Check this eBay listing and let's see who can say >> what's wrong with this >> sextant. >> >> Joel Jacobs >
