ERDGLOBUS ENTWORFEN UND BEARBEITET VON OTTO HERKT [C.1905]
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HERKT, OTTO, GERMANY
ERDGLOBUS Entworfen und bearbeitet von OTTO HERKT [c.1905]
A 35 cm. diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the oceans with northern and southern extents of drift ice and icebergs, and northern and southern limits of hunman habitation, with steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days, submarine cable lines and various depths in metres, islands with initials according to national possession, the Antarctic with partially priojected coastline and several explorers' names and dates, the continents with nation states variously and brightly coloured and showing numerous details such as towns and cities of differing sizes, rivers, mountains, railway lines, telegraph lines, caravan routes and the Great Wall of China (some discolouration) with a brass finial, raised by a short brass arm to an elegant baluster-turned fruitwood column and circular plinth base with glazed compass case with jewelled cap and blued-steel needle (glass cracked) -- 61.6 cm. high
ERDGLOBUS Entworfen und bearbeitet von OTTO HERKT [c.1905]
A 35 cm. diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the oceans with northern and southern extents of drift ice and icebergs, and northern and southern limits of hunman habitation, with steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and journey time in days, submarine cable lines and various depths in metres, islands with initials according to national possession, the Antarctic with partially priojected coastline and several explorers' names and dates, the continents with nation states variously and brightly coloured and showing numerous details such as towns and cities of differing sizes, rivers, mountains, railway lines, telegraph lines, caravan routes and the Great Wall of China (some discolouration) with a brass finial, raised by a short brass arm to an elegant baluster-turned fruitwood column and circular plinth base with glazed compass case with jewelled cap and blued-steel needle (glass cracked) -- 61.6 cm. high
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