Adler AIS | Details

Object number

DPW-5
Classification

Time Finding
Object name

Sundial
Title

Sundial: Universal Ring
Creator

Willebrand, Johann Mathias
Description

Suspension shackle is a bar with beaded end rather than a thumb ring, and is attached to a slip-ring encircling the meridian ring. Equatorial hour ring marked in Arabic numerals. Gazetteer engraved on meridian ring and underside of equatorial ring.
Inscription/Sig.

"Johann Willebrand in Augspurg 48"
Date

c. 1700
Material

gilt brass
Place Of Prod.

Germany

Dimensions

Frame