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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| BUTTERFIELD, HORACE S. | USA, c.1815, MIM | made an astronomical calculator with Olof Ohlson. | Portland, Oregon. | A.H. Brown. | |
| BUTTERFIELD, MICHAEL | England; France, 1635-1724, MIM OIM SIM | Butterfield made a wide range of well made instruments. | an Englishman who spent his working life in Paris, from before 1665 to his death in 1724; master and juror (1702-04) in the "Corporation des fondeurs"; "Ingénieur du Roi"; best known as the developer of the Butterfield-type sundial; many copies and forgeries of his work exist. | England (1635-pre-1665); Aux Armes d'Angleterre, Faubourg Saint-Germain, rue Neuve-des-Fossés (1678); Quai des Morfundus, Ile de la Cité (1691); both in Paris. | Daumas 1; Taylor 1(369) and 2(22); Coffeen A; Mörzer Bruyns 1; USNM; Michel 1; Dewhirst; Price 3; Ward 4; Belgian Inventory; Hamilton 2; Wynter 1; Stewart; Moskowitz 110; Lister; Engelmann 1; J.A. Bennett 2; Bryden 16; Bonelli; A.J. Turner 10; Rinaldi 23; Syndram; Augarde; ADL; RSW. |
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