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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Nov 21, 23:21 -0800
By ancient I mean 1963. It's a sextant in a British tv show. I got there via the usual internet rabbit hole. Steps: thinking about OB1 star association... reminds me of Obewan Kenobi... and then the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special... and from there the loony Paul Lynde Halloween Special.. to Witchiepoo... to Pufnstuf starring Jack Wild... and that led to Steptoe and Son... and a sextant on tv.
See the image below. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that sextant on British televsion is an American sextant, a USN Mk.II, isn't it? I'm not certain, but it appears to be equipped with the polarizing shades found on at least some of the USN Mk.II's. I guess those things do cross oceans, don't they... :)
By the way, a 2000x2000 pixel image from early 1960s television in the UK?! That's 4K four decades before Y2K. Heh. Must have been a still camera shot for publicity...
Frank Reed
