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PHILIP & SON, LTD., London
PHILIPS' "SLATE" SURFACE GLOBE (19" diameter) George Philip & Son, Ltd. 32 Fleet Street London, E.C.4 made in Great Britain
A fine 19-inch (48.3cm.) diamter "slate" globe, made up of two tin hemispheres covered in blackboard paint, with no detail beyond the lines of latitude and longitude and the outlines of the land masses in white paint, with unengraved brass meridian circle, raised on an elegant mahogany library stand, with curved and scroll-decorated meridian support atop a turned column and three inswept legs with pad feet -- 49in. (124.5cm.) high
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PHILIPS' "SLATE" SURFACE GLOBE (19" diameter) George Philip & Son, Ltd. 32 Fleet Street London, E.C.4 made in Great Britain
A fine 19-inch (48.3cm.) diamter "slate" globe, made up of two tin hemispheres covered in blackboard paint, with no detail beyond the lines of latitude and longitude and the outlines of the land masses in white paint, with unengraved brass meridian circle, raised on an elegant mahogany library stand, with curved and scroll-decorated meridian support atop a turned column and three inswept legs with pad feet -- 49in. (124.5cm.) high
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