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Re: What's this please?
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2019 Nov 23, 18:28 +0100
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2019 Nov 23, 18:28 +0100
On 23/11/2019 18:16, Bob Crawley wrote: > I've been investigating an 1880's camera collection and found the item > below. I checked with a vintage photography expert who did not recognise > it. It looks like some sort of portable Sundial and I thought it might > be used to measure exposure. There may be a missing attachment. Maybe > it's just to line the camera up with the Sun? In short, I'd like to ID > it and if this group can't do that who can?! This may or may not be > off-topic in which case sorry but do seem to get unidentified > instruments from time to time. It's part of a goniostat I think. To hone gems or tools at a certain angle. Luc
