Sold for:
4,830 CHF
4,830 CHF
Butterfield, Paris, circa 1760. Fine octagonal, horizontal, portable silver Butterfield-type dial with compass in orig- inal fitted box. Notes Butterfield's dials are generally semi-universal horizontal dials, usually octagonal or oval in shape, and bearing three or four different hour scales, each marked for a different latitude. The gnomon's index, which Butterfield designed as a bird, must be set for the proper latitude on the scale. This was a very popular type of dial during a period of about 120 years, from 1670 to approximately 1790.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
