By the way, an article in The Sunday Times (Oct 6th) suggested
that the museum might have been set up with the intention of
providing a provenance to these objects with a view to just such
a sale. I note that Sotheby's catalog seems to rely heavily on
the museum as the root of provenances. Any c
Fred Sawyer wrote:
> List members may be interested to learn that several of the
sundials in
> the collection of the now defunct Time Museum (Rockford, IL)
will be
> auctioned off at the end of this month. To view photos of the
items go
> to:
>
> http://search.sothebys.com/search/collArea/Bro
List members may be interested to learn that
several of the sundials in the collection of the now defunct Time Museum
(Rockford, IL) will be auctioned off at the end of this month. To view
photos of the items go to:
http://search.sothebys.com/search/collArea/BrowseCat.jsp?source_indicator=
It may that Part 2 would have been on sundials; apparently it was never
published. I don't recall seeing that many sundials at the Time Museum.
At present, I am more interested in the "plain sights" of the large
astronomical instruments with nontelescopic sights which were built by
Tycho Br
ful double
horizontal sundial, which inspired me to build one!
Tom
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Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:58 AM
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de; Tom Kreyche
Subject: Re: Time Museum Auction
Tom
The Time Museum Catalog by Anthony Turner: Volume 1, Part 1 Astrolabes, and
Part 3 Water-Clocks, Sand-Glasses and Fire Clocks have been published, are
out of print, and are available from used book dealers. Part 3 has the best
English-language survey of water clocks (about 70 pages) that I ha
Tom Kreyche wrote:
> There is an article in the NY Times today (Page B38 in my edition)
> about Seth Atwood and the (now defunct) TimeMuseum. According to the
> article, Mr. Atwood is "
now going back to Sotheby's. He is selling an
> additional 218 pieces from his collection on Wednesday, in an a
On 14 June Tom Kreyche wrote:
>There is an article in the NY Times today (Page B38 in my edition)
about >Seth Atwood and the (now defunct) Time Museum. According to the
article, >Mr. Atwood is "
now going back to Sotheby's. He is selling an
additional >218 pieces from his collection on Wednesday
Title: Re: Time Museum Auction
Dear Tom and other dialing enthusiasts,
I'm sorry to report that, in fact, there will be a second
Sotheby's auction (this fall) at which many of the Atwood collection's
lovely dials and instruments of interest to this group will be offered
for sal
There is an article in the NY Times today (Page
B38 in my edition) about Seth Atwood and the (now defunct) Time Museum. According to the article, Mr. Atwood is "…now
going back to Sotheby's. He is selling an additional 218 pieces from his
collection on Wednesday, in an auction titled 'Ma
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