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Re: McMillan sextant
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2017 Feb 1, 10:32 -0800
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2017 Feb 1, 10:32 -0800
Bill, the arc is made of "Platina". The platinum compound arc together with the keystone case would place it probably in the first half of the nineteenth century. There was a William McMillan active in Aberdeen, Scotland as a nautical instrument maker with a William Ogg about 1840.
Bill Morris
Pukenui New Zealand
