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Re: Freiberger Trommelsextant errors
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 16, 18:20 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 16, 18:20 -0400
Ken, Thanks for the interesting information, only one point to make it precise: > 1. In the mid eighties I was told by a British sextant importer (who > was very knowledgeable), that the German Hydrographic Office allowed > sextant manufacturers who produced sextants with no more than 20" In the middle 80-s there were two independent German states. Whose Hydrographic Office made this rule? Alex.