HOLBROOK, Charles W., Hartford, Conneticut

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HOLBROOK, Charles W., Hartford, Conneticut
C.W. HOLBROOK'S FIVE INCH GLOBE [c.1870]
A rare 5-inch (12.7cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and meridian (at 130°W) graduated in degreees, the ecliptic graduated in days, the oceans showing ocean currents, oceanic flora, steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days and three North Atlantic submarine cables dated 1865, 1866 and 1869, the continents with nation states variously and delicately shaded in yellow, pink and blue and showing rivers, mountains, towns, cities and telegraph lines (general discolouration, some rubbing) mounted via a short gilt-painted arm to a baluster turned mahogany pillar and plinth base -- 9¾in. (24.7cm.) high

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Literature

DEKKER, Elly, and van der KROGT, Peter, Globes from the Western World (London, 1993) p175

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Lot Essay

Little appears to be known of Charles Holbrook, beyond the fact that he worked from Hartford, Conneticut, and was the son of Dwight Holbrook, who founded the Holbrook Apparatus Mfr. Co, in 1854, based in Wethersfield, Hartford. It is possible that Dwight's father was Josiah Holbrook (1788-1854), a globe-maker working out of New York, primarily in the 1840's.

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