25th Oct, 2019 9:30 GMT/BST

Antiques & Interiors (Part I)

 
Lot 268
 

268

A brass horizontal garden sundial, signed Messer London (1789-1827), 9-inch brass dial with...

A brass horizontal garden sundial, signed Messer London (1789-1827), 9-inch brass dial with engraved hours and minutes scale and with compass star and plain gnomon, 23cm diameter
Benjamin Messer was a maker of some repute and made mathematical & scientific instruments, he is recorded working between 1789-1827 in Wapping London

Sold for £220


 

. A cluster of six large dings at North otherwise good order, from a private collector in London who stated ''in march 2003 this dial was illustrated in 'Clocks' magazine and their sundial expert Christopher ST J.H Daniel, kindly informed me that he believed the dial has been made by Benjamin Messer, who flourished between 1789-1827, working mostly in Wapping London''

 


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