Lot Essay
The compass rose suggest an English maker for this Russian market dial, a similar example [AST0450] can be found on p.125 of Sundials at Greenwich.
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MID-19TH CENTURY
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INCLINING DIAL FOR RUSSIAN MARKET
MID-19TH CENTURY
unsigned and undated, hour band IIII-XII-VIII subdivided to 5 minutes, two arcs with wheatsheaf patern support folding gnomon, silvered latitude arc for 60°-0°, plate with towns in Cyrillic for [Moscow], [St. Petersburg], [Astrakhan], [Arkhangelsk] and [Kiev], silvered eight-point compass rose with graduations 0°-90°-0°-90°, with two bubble levels and three screw feet
6in. (15cm.) long
MID-19TH CENTURY
unsigned and undated, hour band IIII-XII-VIII subdivided to 5 minutes, two arcs with wheatsheaf patern support folding gnomon, silvered latitude arc for 60°-0°, plate with towns in Cyrillic for [Moscow], [St. Petersburg], [Astrakhan], [Arkhangelsk] and [Kiev], silvered eight-point compass rose with graduations 0°-90°-0°-90°, with two bubble levels and three screw feet
6in. (15cm.) long
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