Accession No

6852

Brief Description

quadrant, purportedly by Walter Hayes, English, 1726, but actually a 20th-century fake

Origin

England

Maker

Hayes, Walter [purported] unknown [forger]

Class

dials

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass)

Dimensions

139mm (radius), 2mm (height)

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract July 2025. Purchased by a private individual from a London dealer c.2010.

Inscription

Walter Hayes
1726 [at the top of the quadrant on its obverse side]

Description Notes

Quadrant, purportedly by Walter Hayes, English, 1726, but actually a fake.

Brass quadrant with 90˚ scale around curved side, marked every 10˚ and subdivided at every 1˚. There is a calendar which spans across both straight sides of the quadrant, with the months noted by their single-letter abbreviations, and subdivided into each day. An inscription at the top of the quadrant names Walter Hayes as the supposed maker, and 1726 as the supposed date of manufacture. The reverse side of the quadrant is blank.

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