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    Re: Ebay Sextant?????????
    From: Joel Jacobs
    Date: 2004 Nov 10, 23:34 +0000
    Alex,
     
    Some good and valuable information. Thank you.
     
    I'm familar with the maurnavy site. I use it to check my prices on Russian equipment. In fact I have a polished aluminum version of the K-100 compass he shows at about the same price.
     
    From my vantage point, I would need someone to explain what the significant differences are bewteen the SNO-M, CO, CH, and CH-U. As far as I'm concerned they are all the same frame and index arm, and likely the same mirrors and optics. The index arm on all these are stamped metal. The addition of the magnifier or its ommission is not, IMO, a significant design variation to warrant a different designation. Note that one sextant has mirror frames that seem to have the same silver paint as on the SNO-T, a marbelized silver.
     
    I have sold SNO-M in both black and green paint. Or at least I considered them SNO-M.

    Joel Jacobs

    -------------- Original message from Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU>: --------------


    > Joel,
    >
    > it could be that the Navies,
    > including Kriegsmarine, had some numbers of
    > their own stamped on sextants in addition to the
    > manufacturer numbers. I remember some pictures
    > where some very different number
    > was stamped on the arm (and the manufacturer number on the arc).
    > Probably these were British sextants, but I did not save
    > the pictures, and do not remember the brands.
    >
    > A nice collection of Russian sextants (all models that I know)
    > can be seen in:
    > http://www.maurnavy.com/index.html
    >
    > My Russian SNO-T
    > has no numbers stamped or engrved
    > on the arc or on the arm, but instead a little plate
    > of white metal screwed ! on the back (against the index mirror,
    > on the back side of the sextant) which says
    > 1990 yr. N 90501 1.5 kg Made in USSR (all in Russian)
    > and an identical plate on the box. The "certificate" says
    > that 90501 is the "manufacturers number".
    > Some numbers: 215 and 136-1 are also stamped on the back side
    > of the frame.
    >
    > Now I finally found out what SNO-T means:-)
    > "Sextan Navigacionnyi s Osvetitelem - Tropikoustoichivyi".
    > that is:
    > Sextant for Navigation with Illumination - Tropic resistant.
    >
    > And one more little remark: I favor SNO-T transliteration
    > because this is how the letters SOUND.
    > ("CHO" is how they LOOK. This second way of transliteration
    > cannot be used systematically because there are several letters
    > in Cyrillic which do not resemble anything in Latin alphabet).
    > For example, on Soviet submarine sextants you frequently ! see
    > the letter on the arm which sounds like "Shch", and cannot
    > be typed on a Latin keyboard.
    > (Enlarge 5-th picture from the top on the web site I
    > mentioned to see it).
    >
    > Alex.
    >
    > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Yourname Here wrote:
    >
    > > I'm not certain, but I don't think it was a practice of
    > > C.. Plath to have a number on the index arm for their
    > > commerical sextants. The Russian SNO-T has a number on the
    > > index arm that will match the number on a plate on the
    > > case if its OEM stock. The SNO-T doesn't have a number on the frame.
    > > I use the term SNO-T because that is how the
    > > identifying plate is engraved.
    >
    > > You say you know of many sextants with a serial number
    > > on the index arm.
    > > Can you tell me which brands of sextants these are.
       
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