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Re: Cassens and Plath Sextant
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Mar 21, 17:24 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Mar 21, 17:24 -0500
Gary, They pay full new price and more for Astra IIIBs! Good Cassens and Plaths have been running about $800 on EBay. Fred On Mar 21, 2004, at 4:35 PM, Gary Harkins wrote: > I just watched a Cassens and Plath sextant on ebay during the last few > minutes of frenzied bidding. This sextant is 5 years old, the owner > didn't know much about it (at least he couldn't tell me if it had the > double prism lens), and went for $846.00. What would make otherwise > sane people (presumably) pay 2/3 of what they could buy new for a > sextant that has no REAL guarantees?
