A miniature dry-card magnetic compass sundial,
signed on the card dial S. Porter Fecit, with steel gnomon, eight points of the compass, north as a fleur-de-lys, and hours VII-I, XII-IIII, with the figure of Old Father Time at South, on a steel pin in a turned ivory box with threaded domed lid -- 2in. (5.2cm.) diameter
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A miniature dry-card magnetic compass sundial,
signed on the card dial S. Porter Fecit, with steel gnomon, eight points of the compass, north as a fleur-de-lys, and hours VII-I, XII-IIII, with the figure of Old Father Time at South, on a steel pin in a turned ivory box with threaded domed lid -- 2in. (5.2cm.) diameter
See Colour Illustration
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