A GERMAN BRASS AUGSBURG-TYPE EQUINOCTIAL COMPASS-SUNDIAL
BY ANDREAS VOGLER, AUGSBURG, LATE 18TH CENTURY
A GERMAN BRASS AUGSBURG-TYPE EQUINOCTIAL COMPASS-SUNDIAL BY ANDREAS VOGLER, AUGSBURG, LATE 18TH CENTURY The square base pierced at the corners with baskets of foliage and engraved with foliage scrolls, further set with a compass, the hour ring engraved with the Roman numbers I-IX and III-XII, with a brass pointer, the folding latitude arch engraved for 15-83°, with a folding openwork plummet support, pierced and engraved with foliage, plummet missing, the back engraved 'Elev Poli Augsburg Paris 48 Cracau Prag 50 Leipzig Clln 51 Amsterdam 52' , with three turned supports, signed And Vogle 3 in. (7.2 cm.) square
A GERMAN BRASS AUGSBURG-TYPE EQUINOCTIAL COMPASS-SUNDIAL
BY ANDREAS VOGLER, AUGSBURG, LATE 18TH CENTURY
A GERMAN BRASS AUGSBURG-TYPE EQUINOCTIAL COMPASS-SUNDIAL BY ANDREAS VOGLER, AUGSBURG, LATE 18TH CENTURY The square base pierced at the corners with baskets of foliage and engraved with foliage scrolls, further set with a compass, the hour ring engraved with the Roman numbers I-IX and III-XII, with a brass pointer, the folding latitude arch engraved for 15-83°, with a folding openwork plummet support, pierced and engraved with foliage, plummet missing, the back engraved 'Elev Poli Augsburg Paris 48 Cracau Prag 50 Leipzig Clln 51 Amsterdam 52' , with three turned supports, signed And Vogle 3 in. (7.2 cm.) square
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