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An early 18th-Century silver Butterfield-pattern compass sundial,
signed on the horizontal plate Le Maire Fils A Paris, engraved with the hours for latitudes [?]52°, 49°, 45° and [?]42°, the inset compass with sixteen compass points, blued-iron needle with brass cap and glazed cover, the folding gnomon with bird-shaped pointer, and graduated 40° - 60°, the underside engraved with the latitudes for twenty-four cities and towns, supported on a turned silver foot, in a green and red (faded) plush-lined leather-covered wooden case with sprung catch and two silver hooks and eye --3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) long; with a handwritten note:
Compass & sundial which belonged to my great, great grandfather, Captain Edward Chalmers of Goyar, 3rd Fort Guards and afterwards in ..... and of a privateer in which he was wrecked & drowned off the coast of Norfolk 1733
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signed on the horizontal plate Le Maire Fils A Paris, engraved with the hours for latitudes [?]52°, 49°, 45° and [?]42°, the inset compass with sixteen compass points, blued-iron needle with brass cap and glazed cover, the folding gnomon with bird-shaped pointer, and graduated 40° - 60°, the underside engraved with the latitudes for twenty-four cities and towns, supported on a turned silver foot, in a green and red (faded) plush-lined leather-covered wooden case with sprung catch and two silver hooks and eye --3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) long; with a handwritten note:
Compass & sundial which belonged to my great, great grandfather, Captain Edward Chalmers of Goyar, 3rd Fort Guards and afterwards in ..... and of a privateer in which he was wrecked & drowned off the coast of Norfolk 1733
See Colour Illustration