To Bill, John, Gordon, Frank and others, Thank you for your pertinent help and information on this matter. By implication the Besancon analemmatic dial would date from before 1925. I will add the explanation referring the hour marks to the description of this remarkable dial on the sundial site I an preparing right now.
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