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Frank,
My copy of Mixter has no note regarding sextant availability in 1943. I
can, however, personally attest to their scarcity, although I was in that
time period able to purchase a second hand octant at the John Bliss
establishment on Front Street - price $35.00, cash on the barrel head.
Personally, I believe Mixter's prices to be overstated - if my memory
serves me correctly, I puchased a 3-ring micrometer sextant in Glasgow
for less than $100.00 just before V-E day.
Henry
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:10:06 EDT Frank Reed <> writes:
> Henry H, you quoted Mixter as follows:
> "Prices of new micrometer sextants available in New York in 1940 are
> from
> $150 to $250."
>
> The usual inflation calculators give a factor of about 10 to 13 for
> the
> interval from 1940 to 2005 so that's $1500 to $3250 in today's
> money. Pricey!
>
> Does your edition of Mixter have the footnote saying that in 1943,
> there are
> almost no sextants available in New York at any price? When I
> finish my time
> machine, I'm gonna take a dozen GPS receivers back to the year
> 1943. I just
> hope I can fit the satellites in it, too. <g>
>
> By the way, it never fails to amaze me which posts (of my own)
> generate
> replies and get conversations rolling and which ones just sit there.
> You never
> can tell, and you surely shouldn't take it personally.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
