Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Mechanical Slide Orrery No. 1, Wilkinson Optician, Sunderland, 19th century, mahogany plank having a pierced geared wheel showing the planets, and is turned by a threaded handle allowing the planets to rotate, label reading No 1 The Solar System, showing the Revolution of all the Planets with their Satellites round the sun, and plank marked with Wilkinson Optician Sunderland, lg. 7, wd. 4 3/8 in.
Provenance: Collection of Vera Rubin.
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
Sunderland, Vera RubinJonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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