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[ANONYMOUS], France, late 18th-Century
A fine cardboard and wood armillary sphere, unsigned, but in the style of Charles-Franois Delamarche, the 1-inch (2.5cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores with equator, ecliptic and tropics, the continents with some place names (old staining), with cardboard meridian circle labelled MERIDIAN, the rim painted red, with cardboard moon disc supported on a short arm, on turned wooden pillar supported on an arm from the central rod with 1-inch (4.5cm.) diameter gilt-plaster sunball surrounded by six concentric circles representing the planets, edged in red, and bearing appropriate information for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn detailing angle and length in years, days, hours and minutes of revolution around the sun, distance from the sun and diameter relative to that of the Earth, edged in red, with cardboard ecliptic ring with stars, two meridian circles labelled COLURE DES SOLSTICES and COLURE DES EQUINOXES, further showing stars and ETOILES FIXES, the Zodiac ring graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with names for the former and names, symbols and pictures for the latter (old staining all over), raised on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 21in. (53.3cm.) high
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A fine cardboard and wood armillary sphere, unsigned, but in the style of Charles-Franois Delamarche, the 1-inch (2.5cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores with equator, ecliptic and tropics, the continents with some place names (old staining), with cardboard meridian circle labelled MERIDIAN, the rim painted red, with cardboard moon disc supported on a short arm, on turned wooden pillar supported on an arm from the central rod with 1-inch (4.5cm.) diameter gilt-plaster sunball surrounded by six concentric circles representing the planets, edged in red, and bearing appropriate information for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn detailing angle and length in years, days, hours and minutes of revolution around the sun, distance from the sun and diameter relative to that of the Earth, edged in red, with cardboard ecliptic ring with stars, two meridian circles labelled COLURE DES SOLSTICES and COLURE DES EQUINOXES, further showing stars and ETOILES FIXES, the Zodiac ring graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with names for the former and names, symbols and pictures for the latter (old staining all over), raised on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 21in. (53.3cm.) high
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