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• Auction House:
  McKenzies Auctioneers
• Sale Name:
  Art, Collectables & Jewellery
• Sale Date:
  02 Apr 2012 ~ 6.30pm (Lots 1 - 210)
  03 Apr 2012 ~ 6.30pm (Lots 250 - 507)
• Lot #:
  343
• Lot Description:
  George 1st Bronze Sundial By James Clowes, London
  With engraved sun/face dial, outside border marked 'Amyddst ye flowers I tell ye hours, 'Tyme wanes awaye as flowers decaye' Beyonde ye tombe freshe floweres bloome' 'Soe man shall ryse above ye skyes' 'James Clowes Londini fecit 1716'
  25.4 x 25.4cm
• Provenance:
  Portesham House Dorset, Capt. Thomas Hardy, by descent. Capt. Thomas Hardy served on HMS Victory, under Lord Horatio Nelson, as flag Captain during the Battle of Trafalgar
• Notes:
  James Clowes, a member of the Worshipful, Company of Clockmakers, is recorded working from the time of around 1671. With later engraved brass mount, marked E. Esdaile Sydney, 1918. Edward Esdaile, was an Instruments manufacturer, who set up business in Hunter St, Sydney 35.6 x 35.6cm
• Estimate:
  A$0 - 0
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Scientific & Industrial

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