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A 6-inch (15.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe by George Philip & Son, London, circa 1890
The cartouche reading PHILIPS' POPULAR TERRESTRIAL GLOBE LONDON GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET, made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic ungraduated, the meridian of Greenwich graduated in degrees, the oceans with ocean currents and steamship routes with distances in nautical miles, the continents with nation states variously outlined in green or yellow and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities (several old repairs and cracks with redrawing) with unengraved brass meridian half-circle to baluster turned fruitwood column and circular plinth base
10½in. (26.7cm.) high
The cartouche reading PHILIPS' POPULAR TERRESTRIAL GLOBE LONDON GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET, made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic ungraduated, the meridian of Greenwich graduated in degrees, the oceans with ocean currents and steamship routes with distances in nautical miles, the continents with nation states variously outlined in green or yellow and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities (several old repairs and cracks with redrawing) with unengraved brass meridian half-circle to baluster turned fruitwood column and circular plinth base
10½in. (26.7cm.) high