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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cxgirl, post: 2870957, member: 63&quot;]I heard back from Bill Morris<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;ve never heard of an &#039;alidade&#039;, will have to see what I can find.</p><p><i>Good morning, Mary.</i></p><p><i>I think your mystery object is part of an alidade that would have sat atop a compass repeater in order to take horizontal bearings of distant objects. It is incomplete, but would make an interesting paper weight.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I suspect it may be of Soviet origin.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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