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Lot 122

A large Robert Connell nonagonal slate sundial,
Irish, dated 1815,

29 August – 9 September 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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A large Robert Connell nonagonal slate sundial, Irish, dated 1815,

signed This was finished with care most fervent by Robert Connell. Your humble Servant. Made in the year of our LORD 1815, made for Londonderry, finely lettered and carved with central 32 point compass rose, a "Perpetual Almanack" covering the years 1700 to 4000 with leap years, Golden Numbers and days of the week, outer hour scale divided to three minutes, equation of time and further scales, lacking gnomon, 59.5 x 52cm (23 1/2 x 20 1/2in)

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Provenance:
Sotheby's London, lot 45, 30th May, 2002.
Private collection.

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