An early 19th-Century Irish brass pocket compass and sundial,

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An early 19th-Century Irish brass pocket compass and sundial,
signed T. & J. Mason DUBLIN, the folding gnomon with scroll support, the silvered dial with iron needle and agate cap, with cover -- 3in. (7.6cm.) dia.

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Further details
For further recorded instruments by this maker see CHARLES MOLLAN: Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments 1990

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