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An unusual late 19th-Century planispheric teaching aid,
the 2-inch (5.1cm.) diameter terrestrial globe by GROSSELIN NO.25 Rue Serpente PARIS made up of twelve coloured engraved gores with four brass rods protruding at 90 intervals around the line of the ecliptic (some lifting, largely discoloured), held suspended on a brass rod with ivorine moonball on curved arm, from long curved brass supporting arm with mahogany handle at the opposite end, held by an integrated loop around the brass column supporting a 4-inch (10.2cm.) diameter brass sunball with various lines inscribed around it and nine rods protruding at various intervals (holes for four more, the rods missing), a tenth, longer, rod protruding from the top of the sphere with a brass N affixed, on a brass column and turned mahogany plinth base -- 19in. (48.3cm.) long
See Colour Illustration
the 2-inch (5.1cm.) diameter terrestrial globe by GROSSELIN NO.25 Rue Serpente PARIS made up of twelve coloured engraved gores with four brass rods protruding at 90 intervals around the line of the ecliptic (some lifting, largely discoloured), held suspended on a brass rod with ivorine moonball on curved arm, from long curved brass supporting arm with mahogany handle at the opposite end, held by an integrated loop around the brass column supporting a 4-inch (10.2cm.) diameter brass sunball with various lines inscribed around it and nine rods protruding at various intervals (holes for four more, the rods missing), a tenth, longer, rod protruding from the top of the sphere with a brass N affixed, on a brass column and turned mahogany plinth base -- 19in. (48.3cm.) long
See Colour Illustration