THE GLOBES BY RICHARD CUSHEE, 1731, THE STANDS 19TH CENTURY

Richard Cushee (1696-1733) was apprenticed to the hydrographer and globe maker Charles Price (c.1697-1733), made a freeman of the Merchant Taylors guild in 1721, and worked from The Globe & Sun in Fleet Street, sharing premises with John Coggs and William Wyeth (G. Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851, London, 1995). A single terrestrial pocket globe of this size and with the same signature and date was sold from the collection of Nico and Nanni Israel; Christie's, London, 11 December 2019, lot 21 (£10,000).