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Apparently yes.  I have a SNO-T labeled Gilly and Gilly (1985 I
believe) -  One interesting difference is that id has a vernier on the
micrometer (which i like very much).  Does your's also have the vernier?

Cheers!

Bruce
Quoting Bruno Meier :

> Hello everyone,
> I recently purchased an 1987 SNO-T sextant from India. It is in good
> condition, however I had the bad surprise to discover that several
> important screws and the mirror calibration tool were missing while
> I was told by the seller that the sextant was in perfect usable
> condition... Anyway, this issue should be solved soon thanks to the
> very kind assistance of Bill Morris (note: his book about the repair
> and maintenance of SNO-T is an absolute "must have" for any owner of
> these truely remarkable sextants. His other book "The Nautical
> Sextant" is also a "must have" in my opinion).
> Besides of the missing bits and pieces, I also discovered that my
> sextant's inventory list in the lid of the case, unlike all SNO-T I
> did see until then, was not written in Russian but in perfect
> English ! See picture attached. It seems perfectly genuine and
> "ex-factory", and leads me to believe that, at a certain stage in
> USSR's history, some SNO-T's were made for export. Does anyone knows
> more about this ? I would love to learn more about the history of
> this sextant.
> Cheers
> Bruno
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