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ANTIQUE FULL MOUNT FLOOR GLOBE - SOLD
Gores and horizon ring scale first copyrighted in New York by Copley in 1852, stand and fitting by Joslin, Boston. 15 inch hollow metal orb dressed with plaster, with dull finish hand colored steel engraved gores. Hand engraved nickel three-spoke time dial at North Pole. Oceans finished in light tan, large analemma scale with explanation in Pacific. Fine engraved nickel full ring meridian moving within a walnut equator ring and thumbscrew clamp, the ring supported by three conforming curved cast iron brackets. Fitted atop a cast iron baluster column with acanthus leaf embossing, raised on cast iron tripod legs with incurvate right angle knees with similar embossing ending in inverted trumpet flower feet. On wooden casters. The U.S. west shows the boundaries of the immediate post Civil War with the Gadsden Purchase boundary with Mexico (1854) incorrectly defined. The Dakotas are as yet undivided since this occurred in 1889. Equatorial horizon ring shows old repair with some losses to its steel engraved paper scales that show zodiac signs and precise year time and seasons. Surface loss in southern Africa area otherwise nicely preserved. Overall height 42.5 inches. Fine private library globe. ITEM# 04394 |
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1-World Global Gifts 
COPLEY,
CHARLES. Improved Globe. Boston. ... Manufactured By Gilman Joslin, Corrected To
Date. NY. c1867. 
