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[?]N.K., France, late 19th-Century
An unusual 2¾-inch (7cm.) diameter terrestrial globe, a partially-obscured cartouche in the mid-Atlantic reading NK, consructed of two painted pasteboard hemispheres, the text in French, the continents simply rendered and strongly coloured in green, pink, orange, yellow and purple (some areas repainted), the sphere opening into two halves at the equatorial, the interior with two chromolithographic prints, one of two children and a donkey, the other of a child with a sword and a dog with a rifle, each signed [..] ATLAS PARIS (replacement wooden interior retaining ring), with simple turned ebonised column aand circular plinth base -- 5¼in. (13.4cm.) high
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An unusual 2¾-inch (7cm.) diameter terrestrial globe, a partially-obscured cartouche in the mid-Atlantic reading NK, consructed of two painted pasteboard hemispheres, the text in French, the continents simply rendered and strongly coloured in green, pink, orange, yellow and purple (some areas repainted), the sphere opening into two halves at the equatorial, the interior with two chromolithographic prints, one of two children and a donkey, the other of a child with a sword and a dog with a rifle, each signed [..] ATLAS PARIS (replacement wooden interior retaining ring), with simple turned ebonised column aand circular plinth base -- 5¼in. (13.4cm.) high
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