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6. Bronze octagonal portable sun-dial* and compass. Made by 

 Butterfield, an Englishman, who settled in Paris in the year 

 1720. This dial is almost a duplicate of the preceding, even 

 to the design of the gnomon, which is a bird. (77 X 65 X ii 

 mm.) 



(Plate IV, fig. 2.) 



7. Silver "Nuremberg Egg".^ An elaborately engraved silver dial 

 has a brass ring superimposed, on which the figures for the 

 hours are engraved. The case is pierced and engraved, the 

 engraving depicting a boar hunt. Made at Augsburg, Germany, 

 during the early part of the seventeenth century. (Length 63, 

 breadth 41, thickness 28 mm.) 



(Plate V, fig. 2.) 



8. Gilt brass "Nuremberg Egg", signed "H." Made in the seven- 

 teenth century. (Length 48, breadth 30, thickness 23 ram.) 



(Plate V, fig. 3.) 



9. Watch in gilt metal case with a perforated and engraved lid, which 

 makes the dial visible without raising the lid. The dial is of 

 engraved metal. The case is surrounded by a band of pierced 

 and engraved silver. The watch has an alarm-bell. Made by 

 Angelo Rota in Rome between the years 1590 and 1600. The 

 catgut movement of this watch is of slightly later date. (Diam- 

 eter 60, thickness 31 mm.) 



(Plate V, fig. I.) 



3 The "Nuremberg Egg" is a name applied to watches of this flattened, oval 

 form, which were first made at Nuremberg about 1600 A. D. 



