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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 May 11, 16:17 -0700
Luc Van den Borre, you wrote:
"'Ben Sisko's sextant' appears to be a Davis Mark 15. This seems to be supported by the auction description: a 'plastic sextant adapted with additional parts and markings to suggest an alien design, painted to simulate brass'."
Wow. I would not have recognized it! It's amazing what a little metallic paint can do to camouflage an otherwise instantly recognizable plastic sextant.
"'Captain Picard's sextant' looks a lot more shabby"
Yep. And it looks like that prop was cannibalized for parts, too. Just like many damaged antique sextants, you can see a hole where the horizon mirror used to be attached.
-FER
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