BY GEORGE PHILLIP & SON, LTD., THE STAND LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE MAP UPDATED IN THE SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

Details

A LATE VICTORIAN TERRESTRIAL GLOBE ON MAHOGANY STAND
By George Phillip & Son, Ltd., the stand late 19th/early 20th century, the map updated in the second quarter 20th century
Of typical form and with printed label:
'PHILIPS'
30-INCH REFERENCE GLOBE
Scale 1:17,000,000
Principal Steamship Routes with
distances in Nautical Miles
Other Steamship Routes
Principal Railways with dis-
tances in Statute Miles
Other Railways
Projected
LONDON
GEORGE PHILIP & SON, LTD., 32 FLEET STR.E.C', on a turned base with zodiac and calendar ring with ring-turned legs joined by a tripartite stretcher, with brass caps and white ceramic casters stamped COPE & COLLINSON/PATENT
49½IN. (126CM.) HIGH, 40IN. (101.5CM.) DIAMETER

Provenance

SOLD IN THESE ROOMS, 7 APRIL 1990, LOT 71 ($26,400).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

THE FIRM OF PHILIP AND SON WAS FOUNDED IN 1834, AT WHICH TIME IT WAS PUBLISHING GLOBES FOR MALBY. IT LATER BEGAN TO PRODUCE GLOBES UNDER ITS OWN NAME AND CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR PUBLISHER OF MAPS AND ATLASES.

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