TABLETOP GLOBE; REPLOGLE. Library Globe. Chicago: Replogle Globes Inc., c.1934.
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TABLETOP GLOBE; REPLOGLE.
Library Globe. Chicago: Replogle Globes Inc., c.1934.
A 12 (31 cm) in diameter, 16½ inch tall terrestrial globe in cast iron meridian on mahogany stand with full horizon, four scrolled legs and four part incurved base, metal hour disc at North Pole. 12 chromolithograph paper gores over plaster, cartouche in North Pacific, Analemma in South Pacific. Some toning and light soiling to gores, ½ inch dent to plaster with 3 associated cracks to gores, a few small white spots.
An attractive library globe, showing Ukraine as a separate entity, as well as French Indochina and French West Africa, Italian Somaliland, and the puppet state of Manchuoko. Luther Replogle began producing globes in Chicago in 1930, and continues to be one of the largest producers of globes to this day.
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PROPERTY SOLD BY BONHAMS
TABLETOP GLOBE; REPLOGLE.
Library Globe. Chicago: Replogle Globes Inc., c.1934.
A 12 (31 cm) in diameter, 16½ inch tall terrestrial globe in cast iron meridian on mahogany stand with full horizon, four scrolled legs and four part incurved base, metal hour disc at North Pole. 12 chromolithograph paper gores over plaster, cartouche in North Pacific, Analemma in South Pacific. Some toning and light soiling to gores, ½ inch dent to plaster with 3 associated cracks to gores, a few small white spots.
An attractive library globe, showing Ukraine as a separate entity, as well as French Indochina and French West Africa, Italian Somaliland, and the puppet state of Manchuoko. Luther Replogle began producing globes in Chicago in 1930, and continues to be one of the largest producers of globes to this day.
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