An 18th-Century brass horizontal garden sun dial,
An 18th-Century brass horizontal garden sun dial,

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An 18th-Century brass horizontal garden sun dial,
dated 1737, finely engraved with armorials, with scroll cartouche DUW DYRAS, well divided hour scale, with subdivisions for minutes of time, engraved with calendar scale, the gnomon with quadrant support -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) dia.

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