SCHEDLER, Hermann, Jersey City, 1890

PRIZEMEDAL PARIS EXPOSN 1867 H. SCHEDLER'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Compiled from all the latest and most authentic Sources including all the recent GEOGR. DISCOVERIES Containing the Principal Lines of oceanic STEAM COMMUNICATION AND Submarine Telegraphs COPYRIGHT 1890 JERSEY CITY, N.J. U.S.A. A rare 9-inch (22.9cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days, submarine telegraph cables with date of installation, and oceanic flora, the continents with nation states variously coloured and showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China (some abrasions and old discolourations, small repair to south pole and to all of one half-gore including New Zealand), on baluster turned brown-painted fruitwood column (some paint loss) to tapering cast bronze plinth base with leaf decoration and four leaf-shaped feet -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high See Colour Illustration

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SCHEDLER, Hermann, Jersey City, 1890
PRIZEMEDAL PARIS EXPOSN 1867 H. SCHEDLER'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Compiled from all the latest and most authentic Sources including all the recent GEOGR. DISCOVERIES Containing the Principal Lines of oceanic STEAM COMMUNICATION AND Submarine Telegraphs COPYRIGHT 1890 JERSEY CITY, N.J. U.S.A.
A rare 9-inch (22.9cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days, submarine telegraph cables with date of installation, and oceanic flora, the continents with nation states variously coloured and showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China (some abrasions and old discolourations, small repair to south pole and to all of one half-gore including New Zealand), on baluster turned brown-painted fruitwood column (some paint loss) to tapering cast bronze plinth base with leaf decoration and four leaf-shaped feet -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high

See Colour Illustration

Literature

DEKKER, Elly, and van der KROGT, Peter, Globes from the Western World (London, 1993) p.142

Lot Essay

Herman Schedler was the successor to Joseph Schedler (fl.1850-1880), a German immigrant whose globes won prizes at the Paris International Exhibition in 1867, the American Institute Fair in 1869 and the Vienna International Exhibition in 1873. He was based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his globes were mostly sold through bookseller E. Steiger in New York. In 1875 he published An Illustrated Manual for the Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. His were some of the first globes to include details of shipping lines, telegraph lines, ocean currents, depth figures and lines of magnetic variation. The largest of his globes was a pair of 20in. (51cm.) diameter.

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