Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date ca. 1686
Maker Johann Leonhardt Bommel
Place Nuremberg
Material Gilt brass
Acquisition Lent by Miss Ellen Willmott in 1924
Accession 1924-43

Provenance

Miss Willmott was a gardener, turner, and collector who supported the Museum in its formative years, and deposited several instruments on loan. There is no record of how she acquired them.
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