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Horizontal sun-dial and moon-dial, nocturnal and disc dial; gilt brass; in wooden case covered with red leather with gilt tooling; obverse: nocturnal with handle at 20 May; rotating system of cursor with marked scroll at outer end, attached to disc marked as horizontal dial with folding gnomon for latitude 40 degrees; compass attached to second arm; hour ring has moon's age figures; reverse: vertical disc dial; folding pin gnomon missing; rotating disc inscribed with two circles of dates; central disc with index traversing scales, marked.
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