Sun-dials 
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master general, must have familiarized him with this 
dial, and I am convinced it furnished to him the 
notion for the design on the first bank-note and 
coins of the new 
nation. 
An interesting 
bit of history 
allied to America 
is given to us in 
the finding of a 
sun-dial which 
gives to Ameri- 
can students of 
heraldic antiqui- 
ties another, 
dated shield of 
the Washing- 
ton “ stars and 
stripes.” 
In Little Bring- 
ton, Northamp- 
tonshire, stands a 
house known as 
“The Washington 
H ouse,” which 
gave shelter to the Washingtons of Sulgrave after 
the fall of their fortunes. Within a stone’s throw 
of the house has recently been found a sun-dial hav- 
ing the Washington arms (argent) two bars, and in 
chief three mullets (gules) carved upon it, with the 
date 1617. The existence of this stone has been 
known for forty years ; but it has never been closely 
Sun-dial at “Washington House,” Little 
Brington^ England. 
