A RARE ENGLISH BRONZE HORIZONTAL SUNDIAL BY JOHN GRUNDY

A RARE ENGLISH BRONZE HORIZONTAL SUNDIAL BY JOHN GRUNDY, C1720 signed John Grundy Philo..., with seven concentric chapter rings giving the time in Bosworth [Leicestershire England latitude 52° 40 minutes] Ozaca [sic] in Japan E, Acapulco in Mexico W and four others, with offset gnomon and two plugged fixing holes, the underside left unfinished with hammer marks, scratched letters and numeral 6, 30cm diamThe maker of this interesting and relatively early English horizontal pedestal dial, John Grundy (c1696-1748) was a mathematician, surveyor and later civil engineer of Congerstone, Leicestershire.