Joe wrote:
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Has anyone ever seen another one?

Joe

It's what we call a star globe. The Navy navigation school here in
Victoria has hundreds. Every warship has a couple. It just make
shooting stars easier. If I remember correctly you just set the LHA of
Aries on the equator and the star is a bearing and elevation. It helps
with the lesser used navigation stars.

They are very common (English ones) but kind of funky. The box one the
ones I have used is mahogany, the moving parts are brass and the globe
is kind of a pressed paper thing.

Gary