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ANTIQUE GEORGE III PEDESTAL GLOBE - SOLD

English. Bardin, T.M. 
The New 12 Inch British Terrestrial Globe Representing The Accurate Positons Of The Principle Known Places Of The Earth, From The Discoveries Of Captain Cook And Subsequent Circumnavigators To The Present Period 1802 ... With Additions To 1807.  Retailer's label (W.& S. Jones. Holborn. London) Obscuring lower part of title cartouche, rubbed to the point of illegibility. Aaron Arrowsmith engraved gores for Bardin globes of this period and this information may lie beneath the retailer's label. T.M. Bardin London 1807. 

Period George III full mount Chippendale stand of black walnut, conforming ferules with brackets supporting horizon ring with engraved scale raised on a column with spiral turned stem and tripod cabriole legs ending in pointed pad feet. Restorations to orb, gores and scale, a couple brackets replaced. Modern brass finial and time indicator hand. Original brass meridian and attachments cleaned and polished. Couple small holes at South Pole. Height 25 inches. An elegant and classic English globe of unusually fine proportions. Yonge lists a globe with the same surface, 1802 but dated to 1805, in the Wilson Museum, Castine, ME. Literature: Ena L. Yonge. A catalogue of early globes. American Geographical Society Library series No. 6. 1968. p. 5. 

ITEM# 09921 - SOLD

 

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