Lot Essay
Madagascar came under French control in 1890 and Panama remained part of Columbia until 1903, thus dating the manufacture of this globe to around the turn of the century.
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OESTERGAARD, Peter, Berlin
ERDGLOBUS gezeichnet & hergestellt im Karthogr. Institut PETER J. OESTERGAARD Berlin-Schneberg [c.1900]
A 14-inch (35.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the equator graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days but unlabelled, the oceans showing ocean currents, steamship routes and submarine cable lines, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured and showing railway lines, rivers, mountains, the Great Wall of China and other details, Madagascar shown as French, Panama shown as part of Columbia (largely discoloured with the overlapping of the gores highlighted by age, surface scratches, large crack to the equator in the Indian Ocean), with stamped brass meridian half-circle (supporting knop at South Pole missing) on turned ebonised column and plinth base (cracked) -- 22in. (57.1cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail
ERDGLOBUS gezeichnet & hergestellt im Karthogr. Institut PETER J. OESTERGAARD Berlin-Schneberg [c.1900]
A 14-inch (35.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the equator graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days but unlabelled, the oceans showing ocean currents, steamship routes and submarine cable lines, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured and showing railway lines, rivers, mountains, the Great Wall of China and other details, Madagascar shown as French, Panama shown as part of Columbia (largely discoloured with the overlapping of the gores highlighted by age, surface scratches, large crack to the equator in the Indian Ocean), with stamped brass meridian half-circle (supporting knop at South Pole missing) on turned ebonised column and plinth base (cracked) -- 22in. (57.1cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail