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A late 18th-Century brass horizontal garden sundial,
the finely engraved horizontal dial with centre wind rose and calendar scale, signed EDWARD HUNTER FECIT, set for latitude 53° 20', further engraved with a perpetual almanac, names of various cities and towns, the hour ring sub-divided with minutes, the gnomon with wheat-ear decoration engraved on the face, with a scroll and merman support -- 15in. (38cm.) dia.
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the finely engraved horizontal dial with centre wind rose and calendar scale, signed EDWARD HUNTER FECIT, set for latitude 53° 20', further engraved with a perpetual almanac, names of various cities and towns, the hour ring sub-divided with minutes, the gnomon with wheat-ear decoration engraved on the face, with a scroll and merman support -- 15in. (38cm.) dia.
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