Accession No

0225

Brief Description

magnetic dial, English, 2/2 19th C

Origin

London; England

Maker

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (bronze, brass); paper

Dimensions

height 61mm; diameter 79mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from P. Webster, London on 20/05/1925.

Inscription

‘LONDON’

Description Notes

Bronzed brass shallow urn on square foot with compass dial set on an engraved paper dial plate within the bowl. Hour scale divided IV - XII, I - VIII, numbered by I, divided to 15 minutes. 32-point compass rose with 8 points marked by initial. (Glass dome missing.)

Condition: fair; incomplete (glass dome missing).

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