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FOREST, J., Paris

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FOREST, J., Paris
GLOBE TERRESTRE Dress par J. FOREST FOREST diteur Fourr. du Ministrede l'Instrn. Puble. 17,19, Rue de Buci, 17, 19 PARIS [c.1925]
A 7-inch (19cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the meridian and equator graduated in degrees, the ecliptic ungraduated, the oceans showing ocean currents strongly marked in blue, the International Dateline, the limits of polar ice with seasonal variation, steamship routes, projected and existing submarine cable lines, and various informations referring to discoveries such as Franois Joseph 1874 at the North Pole, the ocean off the Cape of Good Hope labelled Cap vu en 1486 double en 1497 par Vo. de Gama, the contnents with nation states variously outlined according to a table of national possession and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, telegraph lines, railways, caravan routes and other information (numerous surface abrasions, several cracks, surface discolouration), with brass finial and moulded brass support to turned ebonised pillar and plinth base -- 14in. (36.8cm.) high

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Russia shows Leningrad, indicating a date of manufacture later than 1924 when the city took that name; however, the gores would not have been printed too long after this date as the geography of Africa indicates that the race for 'a place in the sun' had not yet got fully underway.

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