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Object number
T-46
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Classification
Time Finding
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Object name
Sundial
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Title
Sundial, Horizontal: Floating
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Creator
Porter, Samuel
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Description
Dial in turned bone box with screw-on lid. On floating compass card. Base of box with wooden inset and pin for compass card. Hour scale with Roman numerals.
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Inscription/Sig.
"S. Porter Fecit Feby. 16. 1824. /Entered at Stationeros Hall." around edge of hour scale.; "Saml. Porter Fecit Feby 16 th 1824. /Enterod at Stationeros Hall." on label pasted inside lid.
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Period
1824
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Material
bone, wood, brass, agate, paper
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Place Of Prod.
England
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5.1 |
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