Horizontal Pedestal Sundial Signed Chandlee
date: label: date made
content: ca 1810
label: date inscribed
content: 1860s
name: label: maker
content: Chandlee, Goldsmith
notes: label: Description
content: A pewter instrument with square base & fixed gnomon extending at an angle of about 40 degrees. The circular hour scale runs clockwise from V to XII to I to VII and is subdivided into quarter-hours. There is a hole in each corner of the base, but no pedestal.
label: Description
content: The vendor received the dial from the owners of Dearmont Hall, a early 19th c. home on Opecquon Creek in Clark County, Virginia. Marks scratched on the dial are said to be names carved by Civil War soldiers. Chandlee of Winchester is probably Goldsmith Chandlee (ca. 1746-1821), a Maryland-born Quaker instrument-maker who moved to Virginia in 1775 and soon set up his own shop in Winchester. He died there in 1821. See E.E. Chandlee, <I>Six Quaker Clockmakers</I>, Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943, 105-137. Winchester is at a latitude of slightly over 39 degrees, as is Clarke County.
label: Description
content: John D. Brown, who is listed on the dial as a member of Company D of the 18th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, is also listed on the Roster of Company D of the 18th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers as someone who joined the unit as a private and left as having the same rank. The only other name on the dial that is that of a member of company D is William May. However, the Mark W May on the dial is accompanied by the date ‘24. See: http://members.aol.com/fecook/cw/18thctr.htm.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Winchester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Timekeeping
label: Subject
content: Civil War
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.330852
label: accession number
content: 282202
label: catalog number
content: 330852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sundial, Horizontal Pedestal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 13.1 cm x 13.1 cm; 2 9/16 in x 5 5/32 in x 5 5/32 in