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An unusual late 19th-Century 10-inch diameter Chinese globe,
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An unusual late 19th-Century 10-inch diameter Chinese globe,
made up of twelve colour printed gores and two calottes, with graduated equatorial, equinoctial colure and prime meridian (the latter running through Iceland) the oceans with an analemma and showing ocean currents, steamship routes and submarine cable lines, the continents with some nation states coloured in yellow and blue and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities, with numerous notes all over the sphere in Chinese script and showing Alaska as part of America and independent Madagascar, indicating a date of manufacture between 1867 and 1890 (areas of abrasion with detail loss, dent in the mid-Atlantic, cracks off Tierra del Fuego) with a stamped brass meridian circle and horizon ring with Chinese numerals, raised one two ebonised quadrant supports to a baluster-turned tapering and ebonised column and plinth base -- 20½in. (52.1cm.) high
See Colour Illustration
made up of twelve colour printed gores and two calottes, with graduated equatorial, equinoctial colure and prime meridian (the latter running through Iceland) the oceans with an analemma and showing ocean currents, steamship routes and submarine cable lines, the continents with some nation states coloured in yellow and blue and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities, with numerous notes all over the sphere in Chinese script and showing Alaska as part of America and independent Madagascar, indicating a date of manufacture between 1867 and 1890 (areas of abrasion with detail loss, dent in the mid-Atlantic, cracks off Tierra del Fuego) with a stamped brass meridian circle and horizon ring with Chinese numerals, raised one two ebonised quadrant supports to a baluster-turned tapering and ebonised column and plinth base -- 20½in. (52.1cm.) high
See Colour Illustration