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Re: Troughton and Simms Sextant
From: Richard Kennedy
Date: 2019 Apr 17, 03:53 -0700
From: Richard Kennedy
Date: 2019 Apr 17, 03:53 -0700
Hello,
Thank you for your reply and the guidance on how to clean the silver scale. By coincidence (and very unusually) I was in Greenwich at the weekend and had an hour in the Maritime Museum to photograph the sextants and octants on display. There was a Joseph Hughes sextant dated 1875 that had a similarly shaped brass casting ( I assume it is a casting) supporting the silvered scale. I will sort out and post some photographs.
Regards, Richard
