Friends, After help from dialists in Spain I have made contact with Villalcor. Regular recipients of this list will remember that I wrote in late August about the sundials I had seen for sale in Fuerteventura whilst on holiday there.
I have received an interesting colour catalogue showing some 30-40 copies of antique scientific instruments including sundials, astrolabes, nocturnals and armillary spheres. Interestingly, they have a well set out Web page showing the pages from their catalogue that I have received, plus a great deal more, such as copies of old binoculars. They also seem to sell other products that are not anything to do with old scientific instruments. The web page is in Spanish, but one can make out a great deal of what is available from the illustrations. I could find nothing on Villalcor using search engines like Alta Vista and Lycos so I suspect that the site has not been registered with them. That idea is confirmed by the fact that they have only had 200 or so 'hits' during the summer. I would certainly recommend dialists to have a look at their site. The address is HTTP://WWW.goma2.com Their Email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Their postal address is Villalcor, S.L., Taller de Instrumentos Antiguos, Camino de Madrid,S/N 28607 El Alamo (Madrid) I would be interested in comments from dialists who are more knowledgeable than myself as to the accuracy of these copies of what purport to be dials from the 15th and 16th centuries. Richard Capon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
