TABLETOP GLOBE; PHILIPS. Philips' 6-inch Terrestrial Globe. London: Selfridge ...
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TABLETOP GLOBE; PHILIPS.
Philips' 6-inch Terrestrial Globe. London: Selfridge & Co., Ld, c.1936.
A 6 inch (14.6 cm) diameter, 10½ tall terrestrial globe in an uncalibrated iron half meridian on turned wood stand with circular base, poles capped with wood semi-spheres, signed in paper label overlay at North Pacific. 12 color lithographed paper gores over pasteboard with polar calottes. Gores rubbed and worn, crack running through equator, some scratches with small areas of paper loss, stand rubbed.
A very good example of an interbellum terrestrial globe, showing Ukraine as a separate entity, and delineating French West Africa and French Indochina, as well as the puppet state of Manchuria, and the Italian Somali Coast.
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PROPERTY SOLD BY BONHAMS
TABLETOP GLOBE; PHILIPS.
Philips' 6-inch Terrestrial Globe. London: Selfridge & Co., Ld, c.1936.
A 6 inch (14.6 cm) diameter, 10½ tall terrestrial globe in an uncalibrated iron half meridian on turned wood stand with circular base, poles capped with wood semi-spheres, signed in paper label overlay at North Pacific. 12 color lithographed paper gores over pasteboard with polar calottes. Gores rubbed and worn, crack running through equator, some scratches with small areas of paper loss, stand rubbed.
A very good example of an interbellum terrestrial globe, showing Ukraine as a separate entity, and delineating French West Africa and French Indochina, as well as the puppet state of Manchuria, and the Italian Somali Coast.
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