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Alex,

It looks to me to be a 10 second vernier. Most older sextants/octants had
either 10 or 15 second reading verniers.

Henry

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:42:58 -0500 (EST) Alexandre E Eremenko
 writes:
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>
> Dear George,
> Could you look at the picture of the vernier
> of that Hezzanith on e-bay we just discussed:
> http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/pic1.jpg
> It is supposed to provide 0.2' reading.
> What do you think of it?
>
> One more request. As I understand, you had that
> bad sextant (which you returned) in your possession
> for few days. Could you recall some detail about
> it which would permit to exclude the possibility that
> this one is the same?
>
> Like the number and power of the scopes. Presence/absence
> of eyepiece filters?
> Anything about the certificate?
> Was it a 10" reading vernier? (This one is 0.2' reading).
>
> Thanks.
> Alex.
>
>
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> >
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