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PHILIP & Son, George, London, 1918
PHILIPS' CHALLENGE GLOBE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE. GEORGE PHILIP & SON LTD 32 FLEET STREET Printed in Great Britain
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial time globe made up of two sets of twelve chromolithographed gores with applied equatorial strip graduated in degrees and hours, the Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents, and steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and distance in nautical miles, the continents with rivers, mountains, towns, cities, and railway lines (surface abrasions, minor scratches and discolouration, minor split around equator), with stamped brass hour dial and unengraved meridian ring, the axis mounted on a geared mechanism incorporating a silvered 24-hour drum dial, driven by clockwork contained in a 4-inch (10.2cm.) diameter brass drum, signed R. Newey YORK Fecit 1918, wound by a gear and crank handle, mounted on a brass tripod stand with inswept legs to triform mahogany base with three brass bun feet -- 25½in. (65cm.) high
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PHILIPS' CHALLENGE GLOBE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE. GEORGE PHILIP & SON L
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial time globe made up of two sets of twelve chromolithographed gores with applied equatorial strip graduated in degrees and hours, the Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents, and steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and distance in nautical miles, the continents with rivers, mountains, towns, cities, and railway lines (surface abrasions, minor scratches and discolouration, minor split around equator), with stamped brass hour dial and unengraved meridian ring, the axis mounted on a geared mechanism incorporating a silvered 24-hour drum dial, driven by clockwork contained in a 4-inch (10.2cm.) diameter brass drum, signed R. Newey YORK Fecit 1918, wound by a gear and crank handle, mounted on a brass tripod stand with inswept legs to triform mahogany base with three brass bun feet -- 25½in. (65cm.) high
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