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Wooden portable compass with string gnomon decorated with hand-colored paper brightly ornate with flowers and leaf swags.

Portable Compass Sundial

c. 1790

J. Kleininger German, late 18th to 19th century Germany

Germany

Wood, hand-colored etching on paper, and glass with string gnomon

Applied Arts of Europe