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I'm really not certain, but my reading would tend to indicate these
stands to be custom made.

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:02:10 -0300 Jim Thompson 
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> The same thought struck me today -- I ran across mention of those
> devices
> for the first time while doing some google research on sextant
> mirror
> construction.  I had never known about them before.  I then
> researched
> sextant stands, but found only historical references, so it appears
> that
> perhaps nobody is marketing them any longer:
>
> http://45.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEXTANT.htm
> http://www.westsea.com/tsg3/octlocker/octcapchart13.html
> http://www.nla.gov.au/ntwkpubs/gw/47/p22a01.html
> http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61if_2.htm
>
> Jim Thompson
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henry C. Halboth
> > I might note, in this regard, that there does not seem to have
> been any
> > recent mention of the use of a sextant stand in taking shoreside
> > artificial horizon altitudes, as was done by the hydrographical
> surveyors
> > in establishing positions - the sextant stand is pretty well
> covered in
> > "Hydrographical Surveying", by Wharton & Field, 1920 Edition, and
> might
> > be of interest to those using the artificial horizon. This is
> pretty much
> > the standard work, and might be useful to those seeking more
> theoretical
> > accuracy than sometimes sought in practical navigation...
>

   

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