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For thousands of years, long before the invention of mechanical clocks, humans looked to the sky to measure the passage of time. Among the earliest and most enduring timekeeping tools is the sundial.
A small number of Colonial American pewterers cast sundials. Our reproduction sundial with initials, “NM” cast in relief, was made by an unidentified maker. Some pewter scholars suggest that “NM” could be related to know sundial maker, Josiah Miller, New England, circa 1775.
