Lot 67
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GEORAMA Ltd, London
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GEORAMA Ltd, London

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GEORAMA Ltd, London
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY GEORGE PHILIP & SON, LTD., 32 FLEET ST., E.C.4 FOR GEORAMA LTD. SPECIALISTS IN ILLUMINATED GLOBES 19" SHIPPERS GLOBE LONDON AND SWANLEY, KENT GUMPERTS A.B. GOTEBORG SWEDEN [c.1960]
A 19-inch (48.3cm.) diameter terrestrial library lamp globe made up of two sets of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes laid on perspex, the equatorial, prime meridian and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with ocean currents, principal air routes and steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and distances in nautical miles, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured in shades of green and yellow and showing towns, cities, rivers, railways and air routes (some minor discolouration and neat redrawing where the gores were originally slightly misaligned) with stamped aluminium meridian circle held between two tall curved fruitwood supports to a circular plinth base, with electric flex and switch -- 44in. (111.8cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This English-published lamp globe is clearly based closely on the "Duo-Globe", a political/physical lamp globe, identically mounted, patented by the German Columbus-Verlag company in 1959. On the patented German version, when unlit the political details are visible, whilst the physical details are foregrounded on illuminating the lamp. The globe here offered has not been tested and therefore it is not possible to tell whether the design is followed on this example, although there is no indication when unlit that it is.

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