An 18th-Century brass Butterfield-type dial,

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An 18th-Century brass Butterfield-type dial,
signed Baradelle a Paris, with folding bird gnomon, compass with blued-iron needle, the underside engraved with the latitudes of twenty-four continental cities and towns, the dial set for latitudes 40, 45, 49 and 52 -- 3in. (8.2cm.) long

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