Lot 26
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[ANONYMOUS], Germany, late 19th-Century
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[ANONYMOUS], Germany, late 19th-Century

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[ANONYMOUS], Germany, late 19th-Century
An unusual "Easter Egg" globe, of ovoid form, made up of two wooden halves laid with two sets of ten chromolithographed gores and one small southern polar calotte printed with 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, the continents outlined in orange, yellow and green and showing towns, cities, railways and rivers, south-west Africa with a note reading Sandy coast destitute of water, Canada labelled BRITISH AMERICA, China showing the Great Wall and Great Sandy Desert of Gobi, the Greenwich meridian labelled First Meridian trough[sic] Greenwich (general minor discolouration and abrasion) -- 5½in. (14cm.) long

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Lot Essay

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.

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