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Diptych-dial; gilt-brass; made in semblance of book; inscriptions including religious and pious phrases, symbols and sacred monogram; reversible dial-plate with compass box mounted in Cardan universal suspension, engraved for declination N4E; obverse of plate: two pin-gnomon horizontal dials for latitudes 42 and 45; inscription; reverse: two similar pin-gnomon dials for Italian hours with inscription; signature on inside of casing.
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