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Re: More information about carrying a sextant with radium
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Mar 17, 16:07 -0700

What story are you quoting from?

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--- On Sun, 3/17/13, Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu> wrote:

From: Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu>
Subject: [NavList] Re: More information about carrying a sextant with radium
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Date: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 2:29 PM
Paul,
I did not understand some details of the story:

> It
> took ages to arrive, then I got a very stern letter

So it arrived? Or it took ages to arrive to Rotterdam?

> They quarantined the container and the only way I could get the sextant
> was to get a museum to obtain an exception certificate.

Have you tried to obtain one?

> Quite apart from the cost that means another old sextant is gone!

From which I conclude that you decided not to bother with the certificate,
correct?

Alex.
: http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=122913

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