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Horizontal Dial
Signed by Hans Graf
Dated 1563; Gundhalbing
Wood and ivory; 140 mm in diameter

This wooden dial was part of a miner's surveying set, and is made of a block of wood with ivory insets, with the hours engraved on an applied silver ring.

The dial is signed Hans Graf of Gundhalbing in present-day Germany.

Nothing is known at present about the rest of the surveying set.

British Museum, London
Registration no. MLA 1862, 8-9.3

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