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A good early 20th-Century 18-inch diameter English terrestrial library globe,
by Blades, London, circa 1920, in an Art Deco-inspired mahogany library stand -- 105cm. (41¼in.) high
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TRADERS' AND TRAVELLERS' NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Showing the MARCONI HIGH POWER WIRELESS STATIONS from details supplied exclusively to the producers by THE WIRELESS PRESS LTD. NEW POLITICAL DIVISIONS, OCEAN ROUTES, &c Produced by Blades East & Blades, 23, Abchurch Lane, London, E.C.4. Cartographers, Lithographers & Printers. The globe is made up of two sets of eighteen lithographed gores. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes; the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic is graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils. The oceans are well-detailed with an analemma and steamship routes, the principal ones with ports of arrival and departure and distance in nautical miles. Antarctica is shown with partially projected coastline. The continents show nation states delicately outlined in blue, yelow, brown or pink, with towns, cities, rivers, railway lines, some with distances in miles, and wireless stations. Ports icebound in winter are underlined in red. Russia shows PETROGRAD; Europe shows a separate Austria and Hungary. The globe is mounted in a stamped brass meridian circle. The wide mahogany horizon is papered around the inner section with a hand-coloured circle showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac. The horizon is raised on three tapering square section legs with pediments to the top and bottom, united by triform cross stretchers. Above the stretchers rise three curved mahogany quadrant supports to the meridian, and between the stretchers is held the glazed mahogany-cased compass with blued-steel needle. The engraved paper shows a thirty-two point wind rose and degrees 1-360 and in four quadrants.
by Blades, London, circa 1920, in an Art Deco-inspired mahogany library stand -- 105cm. (41¼in.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail
TRADERS' AND TRAVELLERS' NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Showing the MARCONI HIGH POWER WIRELESS STATIONS from details supplied exclusively to the producers by THE WIRELESS PRESS LTD. NEW POLITICAL DIVISIONS, OCEAN ROUTES, &c Produced by Blades East & Blades, 23, Abchurch Lane, London, E.C.4. Cartographers, Lithographers & Printers. The globe is made up of two sets of eighteen lithographed gores. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes; the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic is graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils. The oceans are well-detailed with an analemma and steamship routes, the principal ones with ports of arrival and departure and distance in nautical miles. Antarctica is shown with partially projected coastline. The continents show nation states delicately outlined in blue, yelow, brown or pink, with towns, cities, rivers, railway lines, some with distances in miles, and wireless stations. Ports icebound in winter are underlined in red. Russia shows PETROGRAD; Europe shows a separate Austria and Hungary. The globe is mounted in a stamped brass meridian circle. The wide mahogany horizon is papered around the inner section with a hand-coloured circle showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac. The horizon is raised on three tapering square section legs with pediments to the top and bottom, united by triform cross stretchers. Above the stretchers rise three curved mahogany quadrant supports to the meridian, and between the stretchers is held the glazed mahogany-cased compass with blued-steel needle. The engraved paper shows a thirty-two point wind rose and degrees 1-360 and in four quadrants.
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