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Re: Henry Hughes Sextant (No. 5154)
From: Michael Bradley
Date: 2019 May 29, 15:12 -0700
From: Michael Bradley
Date: 2019 May 29, 15:12 -0700
The 'drum micrometer' replaced the 'tangent screw with vernier' around the end of WW1, 1918, I believe.
That dates the subject sextant, with its tangent screw, probably before 1918.
I have no specific knowledge of the type.
Michael Bradley
