Accession No

6842

Brief Description

horary quadrant and sine grid, fake, by Lloyd Evan Williams, English, 1970 (c)

Origin

England

Maker

Williams, Lloyd Evans

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1970

Latest Date

1974

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass)

Dimensions

127mm (radius), 10mm (height)

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract July 2025. Purchased by a private individual c. 2000.

Inscription

Description Notes

Horary quadrant, fake, by Lloyd Evan Williams, English, 1970 (c).

Brass quadrant mounted with pin-hole sights. Obverse features a circumference scale divided [0] - 90˚, numbered by 10˚, subdivided by 1˚. Inset calendar scale divided to month. Transverse arc with signs of the zodiac. Two pin-hole sights mounted on this side.

The reverse features a circumference scale divided [0] - 90˚, numbered by 10˚, subdivided by 1˚, with a sine grid across the rest of the plate.

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