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W.C. TIME TESTED SCHOOL SUPPLIES MADE BY WEBER COSTELLO CO. CHICAGO HEIGHTS ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT , G.W. BACON 7 CO. LTD. ENGLAND Printed in England [c.1920] An 8-inch 20.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed paper gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees 0-180-0, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and showing Length of a degree of Longitude along each Latitude circle, Circumfrence of each Latitude circle and Distance through earth (Diameter of each Latitude circle), a further note and diagram reading The curvature of the earth's surface per mile is about 2 inches, also with isothermic lines for January and July with temperatures in Fahrenheit, warm and cold ocean currents and monsoons, the Antarctic with mostly projected coastline and two notes reading Amundsen Dec.14.1911 and Scott Jan.18.1912, the North Pole with a note reading Peary April.6.1909, the continents delicately shaded in brown and yellow with towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China (numerous areas of old repair, discolouration and abrasions, approx. ½in. dia. dent south of Java), with moulded bronze hour dial, raised via a short arm on cast bronze tripod base with foliate decoration terminating in lion's paw feet -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) high See Colour Illustration
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WEBER COSTELLO Co., Chicago, Illinois
W.C. TIME TESTED SCHOOL SUPPLIES MADE BY WEBER COSTELLO CO. CHICAGO HEIGHTS ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT , G.W. BACON 7 CO. LTD. ENGLAND Printed in England [c.1920]
An 8-inch 20.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed paper gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees 0-180-0, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and showing Length of a degree of Longitude along each Latitude circle, Circumfrence of each Latitude circle and Distance through earth (Diameter of each Latitude circle), a further note and diagram reading The curvature of the earth's surface per mile is about 2 inches, also with isothermic lines for January and July with temperatures in Fahrenheit, warm and cold ocean currents and monsoons, the Antarctic with mostly projected coastline and two notes reading Amundsen Dec.14.1911 and Scott Jan.18.1912, the North Pole with a note reading Peary April.6.1909, the continents delicately shaded in brown and yellow with towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China (numerous areas of old repair, discolouration and abrasions, approx. ½in. dia. dent south of Java), with moulded bronze hour dial, raised via a short arm on cast bronze tripod base with foliate decoration terminating in lion's paw feet -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) high
See Colour Illustration
W.C. TIME TESTED SCHOOL SUPPLIES MADE BY WEBER COSTELLO CO. CHICAGO HEIGHTS ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT , G.W. BACON 7 C
An 8-inch 20.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed paper gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees 0-180-0, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and showing Length of a degree of Longitude along each Latitude circle, Circumfrence of each Latitude circle and Distance through earth (Diameter of each Latitude circle), a further note and diagram reading The curvature of the earth's surface per mile is about 2 inches, also with isothermic lines for January and July with temperatures in Fahrenheit, warm and cold ocean currents and monsoons, the Antarctic with mostly projected coastline and two notes reading Amundsen Dec.14.1911 and Scott Jan.18.1912, the North Pole with a note reading Peary April.6.1909, the continents delicately shaded in brown and yellow with towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China (numerous areas of old repair, discolouration and abrasions, approx. ½in. dia. dent south of Java), with moulded bronze hour dial, raised via a short arm on cast bronze tripod base with foliate decoration terminating in lion's paw feet -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) high
See Colour Illustration