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From: UNK
Date: 2013 Dec 10, 06:16 -0800
I'm supposed to go Thursday to look at my "final" extant purchase - an old, full size, vernier sextant. So far almost everything in the photos checks out but I'm wondering about the scope mounting system. I don't see a rising piece or a method of adjusting the sight path of the scope - attached photos. I would have expected those two features on one of these works of art.
The adjustable split mounting ring for the scope might be obscured by corrosion but I don't see any sort of rising piece. Were some of these old sextants made without these features, has there been a modification to this one, am I being offered the world's best reproduction, or am I missing something obvious in the photos and about to publicly embarrass myself?
Regards, Noell
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