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Re: Troughton Simms pocket sextant for $85 on eBay
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Apr 17, 13:22 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Apr 17, 13:22 -0700
Looks real to me! These "box sextants" were basic instruments, designed primarily for measuring horizontal angles in terrestrial surveying work, of course.
-FER
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