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A 19th-Century Stockert-pattern fruitwood diptych dial,
signed on the compass card Verfertigt von David Beringer, with blued-iron needle and brass cap, the inner faces with delicately coloured printed paper cards, with string gnomon adjustable for latitudes 36-56 in increments of 2, the upper face pasted with a label printed with a list of continental cities and towns, but also including Philadelphia, Newyork and one other American city (paper with old abrasions and some dirt) -- 3in. (9cm.) long
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signed on the compass card Verfertigt von David Beringer, with blued-iron needle and brass cap, the inner faces with delicately coloured printed paper cards, with string gnomon adjustable for latitudes 36-56 in increments of 2, the upper face pasted with a label printed with a list of continental cities and towns, but also including Philadelphia, Newyork and one other American city (paper with old abrasions and some dirt) -- 3in. (9cm.) long
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