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Plath sextant numbers
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2007 Mar 11, 21:25 -0500
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From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2007 Mar 11, 21:25 -0500
Alex,
It probably should be noted that authentic Plath certificates of earlier
dates refer not only to a Sextant Nr.,. but also to a Buch Nr. and Lfd. Nr.
For example my certificate reads Buch Nr. 1, Lfd. Nr. 249, and Sextant Nr.
27337. It occurs to me that possibly the arc number engraved on the actual
sextant is not an absolute indicator of age, but that it refers to
sequential order in some other form of base record maintained by the
manufacturer and may have been restarted numerically whenever the record
basis changed.. Regardless, I simply do not know.
Henry
It probably should be noted that authentic Plath certificates of earlier
dates refer not only to a Sextant Nr.,. but also to a Buch Nr. and Lfd. Nr.
For example my certificate reads Buch Nr. 1, Lfd. Nr. 249, and Sextant Nr.
27337. It occurs to me that possibly the arc number engraved on the actual
sextant is not an absolute indicator of age, but that it refers to
sequential order in some other form of base record maintained by the
manufacturer and may have been restarted numerically whenever the record
basis changed.. Regardless, I simply do not know.
Henry
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