Globe dial
Category
Brassware
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
Measurements
4 mm (Height); 333 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338193.2
Summary
Globe dial - Circular brass dial known as a meridian circle from a globe. Inscribed with degrees. Unclear if this has ever been attached to one of the globes in Admiral. In notebook no.2, page 16 (1340945.2) Charles Wade refers to: 'Admiral 43. Brass Meridian Circle from a globe.'
Provenance
CPW Item 43 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 2 The Admiral’s Room, 1944, page 16