NavList:

Hi Dave. Very late but as I was searching for info on my Kelvin and Hughes three circle sextant and found your message from January. You were asking if anyone could validate the date of the certificate. I can tell you that my sextant is dated Sept. 1960 and has a serial number of 66715. So I guess that fits in quite well with the date and serial number of yours being three years later. Interestingly, mine is similar in style/looks/colour to your own 1941 model (albeit a newer look) and has a part brass arc but different to the 1963 model which has no brass in the arc and is grey in colour. They must have changed the design in the early 1960's. Further, I was on a cruise recently and had a conversation with the first mate who confirmed that they no longer use the sextant (all satelite now) and have stopped teaching practical navigation in marine schools. Not sure how true that is. Hope you pick this up and that it helps. All the best, Neville Partridge