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C.Plath and SNO
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2009 Feb 4, 07:14 -0800
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2009 Feb 4, 07:14 -0800
Dear List members, I am interested in your opinion about these two sextants on e-bay: 110344551156 and 300290552493. Is this C.Plath a fake (or assembled of parts of different sextants?) We already discussed this question several years ago (on the old list). This seller sold several such C. Plath sextants since then. It looks almost completely like an SNO-M, to the minute detail, including the box construction, accessories etc. The certificates of C. Plath are definitely fake; they look like printed on a computer and filled with nonsense. The only difference between this C. Plath and SNO-M is the arm and the drum. This is what puzzles me. I know this C. Plath seller, I bought several things from him in the past and he makes an impression of an honest person. He insists that his C. Plath's are genuine. One possible explanation is that those early SNO-M were made in Soviet Union on German machinery, and they are really copies of some C. Plath model. Or could the parts of these sextants be interchangeable to such extent, that someone attached a C.Plath arm with the drum to an SNO frame??? Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---