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Horizontal String-Gnomon Dial, French?, c. 1620

Inventory Number 48541


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48541

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans Bought by Lewis Evans at the sale of the collection of M. Roussel, Paris, 1911.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated. Monogram on 1b "ECOML"?
Object type
Sundial, diptych dial
Dimensions
Height: 12mm Width: 51mm Depth: 61mm Weight: 0.05kg
Inventory No
48541
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Oval diptych format. Compass needle and glass missing.