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A 1950's American terrestrial table globe,
Cram's DeLuxe Globe with Automatic Daily Sun Ray and Season Indicator ... Patented in Canada - 1936 Copyrighted by The George F. Cram Co., Indianapolis, U.S.A. made up of twelve chromolithographed gores, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents and the Sargasso Sea, the Poles with dates reached by Amundsen, Peary, Byrd and Scott, the continents with nation states delicately and variously shaded and showing towns, cities, rivers and railways (some areas of staining throughout) held in a graduated cast-iron meridian circle with a second cast-iron half-meridian "sun ray indicator" with an index at the bottom to read off the papered circular base graduated in days of the month and further showing the houses of the Zodiac, day and night at the Poles and seasons for both hemispheres, with instructions for use -- 45.1cm. 17¾in.) high
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Cram's DeLuxe Globe with Automatic Daily Sun Ray and Season Indicator ... Patented in Canada - 1936 Copyrighted by The George F. Cram Co., Indianapolis, U.S.A. made up of twelve chromolithographed gores, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents and the Sargasso Sea, the Poles with dates reached by Amundsen, Peary, Byrd and Scott, the continents with nation states delicately and variously shaded and showing towns, cities, rivers and railways (some areas of staining throughout) held in a graduated cast-iron meridian circle with a second cast-iron half-meridian "sun ray indicator" with an index at the bottom to read off the papered circular base graduated in days of the month and further showing the houses of the Zodiac, day and night at the Poles and seasons for both hemispheres, with instructions for use -- 45.1cm. 17¾in.) high
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