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AN EGG-SHAPED TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
AN EGG-SHAPED TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

GERMAN [FOR ENGLISH MARKET], LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN EGG-SHAPED TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
German [for English market], late 19th century
of ovoid form, made up of two wooden halves laid with two sets of ten chromolithographed gores stamped Made in Germany, English text, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the Greenwich meridian and ecliptic ungraduated, the oceans with cable lines and some steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days, Antarctica showing only the tip of Graham's Land, railway lines and Great Wall of China depicted.

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A similar "Easter Egg" globe, with French text, was sold in these rooms on 24 June 1998. Their origin is uncertain although it has been supposed, on the basis of their unusual shape, that they were manufactured in the late nineteenth century as Easter gifts.