Sold for:
$1,725
$1,725
Pierre Le Maure a Paris, circa 1730. Fine, octagonal, horizontal, portable brass sundial with compass in original shagreen fitted box. Notes These dials are usually called Butterfield dials after the maker who first designed them.Butterfield’s dials are generally semi-universal horizontal dials, usually octagonal or oval in shape, and bearingthree or four different hour scales, each marked for a different latitude. The gnomon’s index, which Butterfielddesigned as a bird, must be set for the proper latitude on the scale. This was a very popular type of dial duringa period of about 120 years, from 1670 to approximately 1790.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-12-02
