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Toizaki was a Japanese manufacturer apparently operating in the 1970s. There 
were quite a few Japanese companies which produced sextants from Tamaya 
designs and parts in this period. I think of their sextants as 
"Tamaya-alikes". Just guessing --this *may* have been yet another of those. 
Did Tamaya manufacture a smaller sextant at that time? In my personal 
experience, sextants from these various Tamaya-alike companies are excellent 
but often imperfect in some way. For example, I used to have a sextant by 
"MAC" which was clearly Tamaya-derived and excellent in most respects, but it 
had one shade which was useless, too dark even for the brightest Sun and bad 
glass, too. This didn't detract from the usefulness of the instrument really, 
but it made me wonder whether there might be something else "wrong" with it 
when I first got it.

-FER


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