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Bone sundial, Spanish colonial (1500s-1600s), rare.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Non-wreck Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Bone sundial, Spanish colonial (1500s-1600s), rare.
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Bone sundial, Spanish colonial (1500s-1600s), rare. 15.18 grams, 2-1/8" in diameter and 1/4" thick. Before there were clocks and wristwatches, the only way to keep track of time of day was the sun, so small and portable sundials like this one were all the rage with important people. Surviving specimens are nevertheless rare, and generally come from shipwrecks of the period, but this one was found on land, unfortunately still with pieces lost to the elements (also some cracks) but most of it still intact with clear markings etched into the off-white bone surface. Found at a Spanish colonial settlement in the southern Caribbean.