Garden Armillary Sundial
20th Century

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Garden Armillary Sundial
Cast Iron Garden Armillary Sundial
American: c. 1930s
21 inches tall
13 inches diameter, globe
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Unusual hand-made garden cast iron armillary sphere, having a central gilt ball within a series of meridians and concentric rings representing terrestrial and celestial circles, and having zodiac band with four Greek letters denominating the constellations associated with the four seasons and a central gilt arrow and feather through the sphere, raised on a gilt round base. Found in a garden in New Hampshire.