A RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY CORNISH MINER'S DIAL, SIGNED J. HALSE, PENZANCE
with 6½in. compass card with stepped manuscript outer-ring highlighted in red, mahogany case with sliding lid, inset bubble level and sights with declination arc signed as per title, tripod attachment under (missing one sight, remaining one fractured) -- 9in. (23cm.) square

J. Halse has not been located at the time of writing.

Condition Report
Paper crack near dial centre; mount for a sight present, the remaining pinhole sight fractured in half, thumbscrews securing arc bent.

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