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I tried several reproductions.
Of course I tried them in shops, never bought one:-)
Sometimes even the shop owner was confused and thought that
these are real things. (And the price was corresponding to that :-)

My answer is short. They are NOT usable. These are decoration items,
not instruments.
They are for hanging on a wall to decorate a shop or a restaurant.

People who make them (most of them are made by "Stanley London"
but there are many others as well) do not understand
(or do not care) how a sextant works. They are only concerned
with how it looks. And sometimes their reproduction look very
real, at a distance.

Alex.

P.S. Of course when I say "not usable", I mean they are not real
sextants. The parts rotate sometimes, but the result you can hope for
are probably worse than you would obtain from a cardboard sextant
you can make yourself.


> ebay item number 190777497997
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> pretty good looking "reproduction" for $100.
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> anybody ever try one?
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