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Re: New Soviet era sextant SNO-T
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2020 Sep 15, 09:59 +0200
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2020 Sep 15, 09:59 +0200
On 15/09/2020 01:45, Markku Kalima wrote: > What's your opinion. Should I start to use that sextant or would it be > wanted by some collector? I'm just learning celestial navigation, so I > dont really need a museum device, but only a proper sextant. I would use it. It's a really great sextant, but they are available in NOS condition often enough. Maybe you can even flip the horizon shades the right way: https://sextantbook.com/category/blunders/ > What might be the value of this kind of sextant be (in Europe)? Here's a recent sale: https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Original-russian-navigation-marine-sextant-SNO-T-SNO-T/114267349859 Add ~20% import duties to get about €400 cost inside EU. Seems about right to me. Luc
