A VICTORIAN PROBABLY SCOTTISH SLATE OCTAGONAL GARDEN SUNDIAL JAMES WALSH MID 19th CENTURY The 11 inch octagonal plate fitted with a leafy-scroll pierced cast bronze gnomon set for 50.5 degrees Latitude above a central compass rose annotated with eight cardinal points, within band labelled with months of the year set within three sectors annotated either Sun too fast or Sun too Slow and engraved with four sets of equation figures for each month to margin, the Roman numeral IIII/XII/VIII chapter ring with paired stylised fluer-de-lys half hour markers, quarter divisions to inner track and minute ring to outer, the space between the IIII and VIII numerals signed James Walsh Sculpsit. 25.5cm (10ins) wide, 17cm (6.75ins) high. James Walsh does not appear to be recorded in the usual scientific directories however, when considering the Scottish roots of his name together with the fact that the most well-known maker of slate sundials, Richard Melvin (1832-71), was based in Glasgow, a suggestion that the current lot was made in Scotland would not appear unreasonable. The gnomon being set at approximately 50.5 degrees Latitude would suggest that the present dial was calibrated for use in South Devon or Cornwall.
A VICTORIAN PROBABLY SCOTTISH SLATE OCTAGONAL GARDEN SUNDIAL JAMES WALSH MID 19th CENTURY The 11 inch octagonal plate fitted with a leafy-scroll pierced cast bronze gnomon set for 50.5 degrees Latitude above a central compass rose annotated with eight cardinal points, within band labelled with months of the year set within three sectors annotated either Sun too fast or Sun too Slow and engraved with four sets of equation figures for each month to margin, the Roman numeral IIII/XII/VIII chapter ring with paired stylised fluer-de-lys half hour markers, quarter divisions to inner track and minute ring to outer, the space between the IIII and VIII numerals signed James Walsh Sculpsit. 25.5cm (10ins) wide, 17cm (6.75ins) high. James Walsh does not appear to be recorded in the usual scientific directories however, when considering the Scottish roots of his name together with the fact that the most well-known maker of slate sundials, Richard Melvin (1832-71), was based in Glasgow, a suggestion that the current lot was made in Scotland would not appear unreasonable. The gnomon being set at approximately 50.5 degrees Latitude would suggest that the present dial was calibrated for use in South Devon or Cornwall.
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