FRANCE BUTTERFIELD, à Paris.
Horizontal sundial, portable.
Octagonal brass turntable with engraved indexes with Roman and Arabic numerals, with compass and triangular tilting style, with birds, folding, on cut-out spring blade engraved with leaves.
Signed.
On the reverse side, the names and latitudes of twenty-three European cities.
Early 18th century.
H. (unfolded) : 4 cm - Dim. plate : 7,6 x 6,6 cm.
Wear and some stains ; gnomon to be refixed.
Michael Butterfield (1635-1724), of English origin, worked in France from 1677.
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