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Lot 154
A 17th Century Ivory Magnetic Azimuth Pocket Sundial, by Charles Bloud, circa 1670, Leaf 1a – Equinoctial dial numbered 1-12, 1-12 divided to 30 minutes, and a polar dial 8–12-4. The ivory with typical Dieppe decoration.Leaf 1b – Lunar volvelle consisting of fixed calendar with hour scale and rotating lunar age scale disc and moon-phase disc. On the right is a latitude scale for use with the equinoctial dial.Leaf 2a – Magnetic azimuth dial with printed compass card with latitudes of various European cities. Slot on right carries strut for use with latitude scale on 1b.Leaf 2b – Date scale and perpetual calendar on silver volvelle, signed Bloud, Dieppe, circa 1670 ( § )
Lot 290
A rare German fruitwood and printed paper polyhedral sundial Johann Gutle, Nuremberg, late 18th century Of asymmetric gabled form the top with printed coastal city decorated bar-gnomon dial set at 50 degrees opposing larger circular pin gnomon dial set at 40 degrees labelled Hequinoctaile , the front with diptych dial incorporating vertical oval country-house centred chapter ring labelled Meridionale above cartouche-shaped horizontal dial to base with decorative ribbon printed chapter ring around a cityscape printed centre labelled Ad elevationem Poli, 48 ½ 4g 50 1/5 Gr. over text Horologium Horizontale to lower margin, the sides with opposing vertical Occidentale and Orientale dials each printed riverside castle landscapes and the rear with oval country house centred dial labelled Septentrionale and signed J.C. Gutle Mech. Norim. Fecit. Exe. to lower margin (lacking gnomon) above small horizontal compass dial to the pointed base, 16cm (6.25ins) high; 24cm (9.5ins) long. The Nuremberg polymath Johann Gütle (1747-1827) was self taught in physics and mathematics, and was an active entrepreneur who fabricated and sold everything from etched glass to cleaning and beautifying products (among them hair restorer and colouring) to lightning rods. He wrote more than two dozen books on various subjects including mechanics, electricity, surveying, and magic. He ran an active distribution centre for his books and products, and was a travelling showman whose efforts to succeed in retailing had a component of entertainment - through the execution of magic tricks. Despite evidence that he could justifiably be labelled a huckster, he was also a talented and versatile handworker mentioned by contemporaries as an important artisan and author (the poet Jean Paul, for example, alludes, with pleasure, to the use of his hair dye), and he made serious efforts to contribute to the scientific betterment of daily life. Chief among his accomplishments was the construction of the original Nuremberg lightning rod, which brought him considerable acclaim.
Lot 292
A small English patinated brass octagonal sundial Unsigned, possibly mid 17th century The 3.5 inch octagonal plate fitted with scroll decorated pierced angled gnomon set at 51 degrees and engraved with circles and radial lines to centre within narrow outer track with Roman numeral chapters IIII-XII-VIII divided into quarter-hours , the angles drilled for fixing. The octagonal shape, centre engraving and narrow chapter ring of the current lot is reminiscent to that of two related sundials by William Bowyer and Richard Hinton illustrated and discussed in White, George NOT A BAD TIMEKEEPER: THE ENGLISH LANTERN CLOCK IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Antiquarian Horology Vol. 31 Sept. 2009 pages 624-8). As White suggests that these examples were made by clockmakers to be supplied alongside lantern clocks then it would perhaps be reasonable to suggest that the current lot was also possibly made by a provincial clockmaker for the same purpose.
Lot 294
An English patinated brass garden sundial Unsigned, probably mid to late 18th century The 8 inch circular plate fitted with angled gnomon set at 51 degrees and centred with a four-point compass rose with stylised radial leafy decoration to segments, annotated N, E, S, and W within the inner track, the chapter ring with Roman numerals IIII-XII-VIII with tied lozenge half hour markers, the outer track divided in to quarters and twelfths denoting five minute intervals, 20cm (8ins) diameter.
Lot 293
An English brass garden sundial George Adams, London, third quarter of the 18th century The 7.875 inch circular plate fitted with angled gnomen set at 51 degrees and centred with an eight-point compass rose with stylised sunburst and leafy scroll decoration to segments, annotated N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW within the inner track, the chapter ring with inner herringbone engraved border and Roman numerals IIII-XII-VIII with lozenge half hour markers, the outer track divided in to quarters and twelfths denoting five minute intervals, the space between IIII and VIII signed G. ADAMS, LONDON and with decorative scroll engraved terminals to the chapter ring, 20cm (7.875ins) diameter. George Adams senior is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as apprenticed to Thomas Heath gaining his Freedom of the Grocers Company in 1733. He worked from several addresses in and around Fleet Street, London until his death in 1772, these include Tycho Brahe's Head, 60 Fleet St. where the business was based from 1738. In 1760 Adams was appointed as Mathematical Instrument Maker to King George III for whom he supplied a vast range of apparatus including items for pneumatic and mechanical demonstration/experimentation almost all of which survive in The King George III Collection housed in the Science Museum, London. George Adams junior was apprenticed to and succeeded his father working as maker of a full range of instruments including globes from Tycho Brahe's Head, 60 Fleet St. 1772-95. He was succeeded by his widow, Hannah, before the premises was taken over by his brother, Dudley, in 1796.
Lot 281
Sundials - twenty four volumes: Strode, Thomas A New and Eafie METHOD TO THE ART OF DYALLING facsimile reprint of 1688 edition, North American American Sundial Society, Glastonbury CT 2002, gilt titled blue cloth; Clerke, Gilbert THE SPOT-DIAL facsimile reprint of 1687 edition, North American Sundial Society, Glastonbury CT 2001, gilt titled blue cloth; Foster, Samuel THE DESCRIPTIONOF A RULER Upon which is infcribed divers SCALES AND Vfes thereof: facsimile reprint of 1652 edition, North American Sundial Society, Glastonbury CT 2001, gilt titled blue cloth; Emerson, William DIALLING OR THE Art of drawing DIALS facsimile reprint of 1770 edition, North American Sundial Society, Glastonbury CT 2001, gilt titled blue cloth; Foster, Samuel THE ART OF DIALLING facsimile reprint of 1638 edition incorporating non-facsimile transcription of the 1675 edition, North American Sundial Society, Glastonbury CT 2001, gilt titled blue cloth; Sawyer, Frederick W. III The Analemmatic Sundial SourceBook North American Sundial Society, limited edition numbered 84/140, Glastonbury CT 2004, gilt titled green cloth; Cousins, Frank W. SUNDIALS, A Simplified Approach by Means of the Equatorial Dial John Baker, London 1969, dj; Gibbs, Sharon L. Greek and Roman Sundials Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1976, black titled gilt cloth; Herbert, A.P. SUNDIALS OLD AND NEW Methuen and Company Limited, London 1967, dj; Mayall, R. Newton and Margaret L. SUNDIALS HOW TO KNOW USE AND MAKE THEM Charles T. Branford Company, London 1958, dj; Gatty, Mrs. Alfred THE BOOK OF SUN-DIALS facsimile reprint of the 1900 George Bell and Sons edition, London undated, softbound; Rohr, Rene R.J. Sundials HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo 1970, dj; Waugh, Albert E. SUNDIALS THEIR THEORY AND CONSTRUCTION Dover Publications Incorporated, New York 1973, sofbound; Heilbron, J.L. The Sun in the Church CATHEDRALS AS SOLAR OBSERVATIONS Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1999, dj; Jenkins, Gerald and Bear Magdalen Sundials & Timedials Tarquin Publications, Diss 1987, softbound cut-out pattern publication softbound stapled spine; Lennox-Boyd SUNDIALS Francis Lincoln, London 2005, dj; Putelat, Pierre cadrons solaires des alpes Louis-Jean, Gap 1993; Putelat, Pierre cadrons solaires des hautes-alpes Louis-Jean, Gap 1992; Homet, Jean-Marie les cadrans solaires Edotions Ch. Massin, Paris undated, dj; Berge, Len Cornish Church SUNDIALS Short Run Press Limited, Exeter 2002; dj; Lester, John (editor) Mrs Crowley s Sundial Sketchbooks of Devon & Cornwall The British Sundial Society and The Antiquarian Horological Society, Crowthorne and Ticehurst 2007, softbound; Green Arthur Robert SUNDIALS Incised Dials or Mass Clocks SPCK, London 1978, softbound; Gotteland, Andree and Camus, Georges CADRONS SOLAIRES DE PARIS CNRS Editions, Paris 1993, softbound; Cowham (editor), Mike SUNDIALS of the BRITISH ISLES Published by the editor limited edition numbered 10/600 with dedication, Cambridge 2005, dj; Pattenden, Philip Sundials at an Oxford College Roman Books, Oxford 1979, softbound, with a selection of related sundry material; a run of BULLETIN Journal of The British Sundial Society vols. 14-19 inclusive and various other publications by the society, (qty).
Lot 206
Scientists, astronomers and scientific instrument makers - four engraved portraits: Thomas Wright, anonymous after an unknown artist, oval panel entitled THOMAS WRIGHT. PHIL. NAT. NAT. ET. MAT. PROF. to upper border, the lower margin with a column sundial, published by Gentleman Magazine 1793, unframed, 21 x 13cm (8.25 x 5.125ins); Benjamin Martin engraved by R. Page after an unknown artist, oval tableau incorporating a globe and telescope, entitled BENJ. MARTIN, published by Encyclopaedia Londinensis 1815, unframed, 16.5 x 11cm (6.5 x 4.25ins) to margin; James Ferguson, anonymous after an unknown artist, oval tableau entitled JAMES FERGUSON F.R.S., published by W. Bent 1785, unframed, 18 x 11cm (7 x 4.25ins) to margin; and another engraved by T. Wright after James Northcote entitled JAMES FERGUSON. F.R.S. beneath image, framed and glazed 13.5 x 9.5cm (5.25 x 3.75ins) approx., (4). Provenance: The estate of Michael Hurst.
Lot 141
Seashells: A Collection of Various World Sea Shells and Coral, to include Scorpion spider, Candy snail, Fig shells, Salisbury spindle, Auger turitella, Sundial, Millipede spider conch, Strawberry turbo, Japanese landsnail, Spotted tonna, Donkey's ear abalone, Babylonia spirata, all contained within a three-drawer plywood collectors chest, 46cm by 28cm by 16cm, together with three coral specimens (qty)
Lot 993
A World War I trench-map, Plourain 1917 (Sept 7th), an OS 1916 map, Lens, a 1917 Fifth Army pocket-map with plan of Herbingham on reverse, 1918 map of the Somme battlefields, cemeteries and memorials, a leather ammunition belt with five pouches, A Baimsfather-printed bowl, sugar basin and cream jug, a Short & Mason gilt-cased pocket barometer, a turned treen pocket sundial/compass, two World War II field compasses, nine Britains die-cast guardsmen and two cased WVS Long Service medals Condition Report Pocket barometer not functioning
Lot 333
A small collectors' lot to include a brass Stanley London pocket compass/sundial (af), a military compass 'Magnetic Marching Mk 1', marked 'B198077' by T.G. Co Ltd, a mother of pearl handled pocket knife, a further smaller similar example, two further pocket knives and a small quantity of military-related badges and buttons.
Lot 180
A stainless steel Rolex Oyster Junior Sport wristwatch, a Sekonda vintage wristwatch, a Rotary Super Sports and a Sundial ladies wristwatch. CONDITION REPORT: The Rolex watch is not running. The watch seems to wind and the hands adjust but it is not ticking. The case is very dirty with wear and scratches particularly to the back. The gilding to the dial is beginning to perish.
Lot 547
Royal Doulton - Special Handmade and Hand Painted Collection of Ltd and Numbered Edition Bunnykins ( 4 ) Four In Total. Comprises 1/ Bunnykins of The Year 2000 only, Sundial Bunnykins, DB216, Date 1999. 2/ Federation Bunnykins, DB224. No 405 of 2500, Exclusively Made for Dalbry Antiques, Australia Melbourne Date 2000. 3/ Captain Cook Bunnykins, Collectors Club. DB251, No 2058 of 5000, Date 1999. All Figures are 1st Quality and Mint Condition. Comes Complete with Boxes and Certificates.
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