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Dear Joel,
I don't have a digital camera, but you
can see VERY good pictures of EXACTLY the same
sextant on
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=37971&item=3762360200&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=60368&item=3762108473&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
What Russian e-bay traders really do very well is
photographs:-)

Alex.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Yourname Here wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Please send me a picture of your sextant or better yet post it on a website 
where everyone can see it. I will reserve my comments until then.
>
> Joel Jacobs
> --
> Visit our website
> http://www.landandseacollection.com
>
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message from Alexandre Eremenko : --------------
>
>
> > Dear Chuck:
> >
> > >Add to
> > >that if the handle were on the opposite side as now,
> > >the arm would have to
> > >be in the back between the legs.
> > >Otherwise the handle would have to span the
> > >entire front to avoid interfering with the arm.
> > >This would add weight to the sextant.
> >
> > This message made me inspect my SNO-T again,
> > and I found an interesting thing.
> > Its design is very different from the conventional one.
> > You can see this in many web photographs on e-bay.
> >
> > In most traditional sextants, the arm moves
> > "in front of" or "above" the frame.
> > In SNO-T (and Freiberger) it moves "inside" the frame.
> > The frame is of "two layer" construction.
> > And the arm moves between these two layers.
> >
> > This is very different from the C.Plath-type
> > (Tamaya, Astra, SNO-M) and British
> > sextants I know.
> >
> > Alex.

   

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