I dislike judging things from photographs rather than in person, but to me this
looks like a fake (something pretending to be what it is not) and not a
reproduction.The lettering is not convincing-too many styles, ones wrong
for the period, the hour numerals reversed from the usual, the use
Hi Dennis,
Bad news, I'm afraid! This is almost certainly an early-20th-century
'decorative' dial of the type made by firms like Pearson Page Ltd and
advertised in their catalogues. The spelling, the use of a motto at all, the
arrangement of the hour numerals etc etc are all wrong for a 17th
The IV as opposed to the worries me.
Simon
Simon Wheaton-Smith
www.illustratingshadows.com
Phoenix, Arizona, W112.1 N33.5
From: Dennis Cowan dennis.co...@btinternet.com
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:36 PM
Subject: SCOTTISH
