- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Ralph Greatorex
- Provenance
- Purchased at auction, and was subsequently discovered to be an object missing from the collection of the Wisbech and Fenland Museum. Conceded to this museum by the Wisbech and Fenland Museum by letter of 10 March 1993.
- Primary inscriptions
- "Ralph Greatorex fecit Londi:".
- Physical material
- Brass
- Object type
- Equinoctial ring dial
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 93mm
- Inventory No
- 83199
- Accession Number
- 1987-7
Description
Brass, similar to the dials of Elias Allen, but with quadrant of degrees on reverse of the meridian ring. First latitude given of 'Woborn' (Woburn in Bedfordshire), therefore was made for the Duke of Bedford, of Woburn Abbey.
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