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19th Century English Pocket Horizontal Sundial.

Item#: TTS853

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19th Century English Pocket Horizontal Sundial. - click to enlarge.

A 19th Century English Pocket Horizontal Sundial. This silvered brass horizontal pocket sundial was made in England and signed J. Baum & Co. Birmingham and dated 1875. This sundial consisting of a folding rectangular plate with round corners (measures 6.3 X 4.5 cm) on which the shadow is cast through a folding hinged triangular gnomon. The dial chapter includes an engraved scale in Arabic numeral from 5 am to 7 pm, made for latitude of 52ยบ. The dial incorporates a recessed compass with glass cover and a rhomboid blued steel hand. The dial comes in the original leather covered traveling case with hook and eye (5.4 X 4.2 cm).
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