Lot Essay
Dekker catalogues an almost identical star-globe in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.
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Printed by George Philip & Son, Ltd. STAR GLOBE KELVIN & HUGHES LTD. EPOCH 1975
Details
KELVIN & HUGHES Ltd, London, 1975
Printed by George Philip & Son, Ltd. STAR GLOBE KELVIN & HUGHES LTD. EPOCH 1975
A 7-inch (17.8cm.) diameter marine star globe made up of twelve cream-coloured printed gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month, the constellations identified by dotted lines connecting the stars, shown to five magnitudes and labelled with Greek characters, some named, with stamped brass meridian circle and removable hemisphere of four graduated altitude quadrants surmounted by a ball finial, mounted in the original mahogany box with stamped brass horizon graduated 0-360° and further stamped H.H. & S LTD No3624 , the lid applied with printed paper instructions for the use of the globe, dated 1975, and two removable brass index clamps for the altitude quadrants, the box with two brass hooks and eyes -- 10½in. (26.7cm.) wide
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Printed by George Philip & Son, Ltd. STAR GLOBE KELVIN & HUGHES LTD. EPOCH 1975
A 7-inch (17.8cm.) diameter marine star globe made up of twelve cream-coloured printed gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month, the constellations identified by dotted lines connecting the stars, shown to five magnitudes and labelled with Greek characters, some named, with stamped brass meridian circle and removable hemisphere of four graduated altitude quadrants surmounted by a ball finial, mounted in the original mahogany box with stamped brass horizon graduated 0-360° and further stamped H.H. & S L
See Colour Illustration
Literature
DEKKER, Elly, Globes at Greenwich (Oxford, 1999) pp379-381