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Provenance:
The Time Museum, Rockfort, Ill.
Christie's London, lot 30, 14th April 1988.
Private Collection.
Gabriel Stokes was born in 1682 and attended the King's Hospital School in Dublin. He became Deputy Surveyor General of Ireland. He is known to have sold bow quadrants, slide rules and sundials and he also invented the pantometron or surveyor's square.