Inventory no. 39887 - Former Display Label
?Fake German ASTROLABE
Date uncertain
Unsigned and undated. Brass.
One plate, for latitude 52°20'. The mater is engraved with a scale of unequal hours and marked, "ELEVA POLI 48G" i.e. 'latitude 48'. The rete is of unusual design.
The back bears a sundial of the so-called Geminus-type, based on the Rojas astrolabe projection.
Probably a modern fake of a 16th century astrolabe.
[IC 269]
Lewis Evans Collection