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Odometer
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      silvered brass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 130 mm
    • Inventory:
      648
    • Odometer (Inv. 648)

Incomplete odometer comprising a disk with mobile indexes. The circumference is engraved with numbers. This is almost certainly the surviving counter of a lost mechanism for recording the revolutions of a vehicle wheel. Provenance: Medici collections.

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