Lot 2053

Description

French sun dial ring, time ring with drill hole on centre slide to adjust to month of the year and on the inner band are the hours of the day, the sun shines through the hole on the slide onto the inner band and tells you the exact hour, comes with instruction paper. In good condition.

Ring side of instruction paper first paragraph translates to; the eighteenth century, in 1721, in the Prussian forest of Benedictine devised this little portable I dial giving time to after the height of the sun' (au XVIIIc siecle, en 1721, dans les forets prussiennes des Benedictins mirent au point ce petit cadran portatif donnant I' heure d' apres la hauteur du Soleil), manual (mode d' Emploi), the second paragraph translates to 'Run the cursor way to place the small hole in front of months. Suspend the watch and direct the side containing the small hole into the sun. A bright spot appears on the engraved graduations in the interior of the ring, showing the solar time; on one side the HOURS of the morning, the other those of the after - noon' (Faire tourner le curseur de facon a placer le petit trou en face du mois. Suspendre la montre et diriger la face contenant la petit trou vers le soleil. Un point lumineux apparait sur les graduations gravees a l' interieur de l' anneau, indiquant l' heure solaire; d' un cote les hueres du matin, de l' autre celles de l' apres-midi), the other side of the instruction paper is for a different sun dial.

Ex Ian T.Cummins Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 113C (lot 4027).