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H. Kiepert, Stockholm, 1909
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An early 20th-Century Swedish 21-inch diameter terrestrial table globe
H. Kiepert, Stockholm, 1909
JORDGLOB av H. KIEPERT svensk uplaga av ARVID KEMPE Wahlström & Widstrand Stockholm 1909 D. Reimers kartograf. tryckeri, Berlin, made up of two sets of twenty-four chromolithographed half-gores and two graduated polar calottes, with applied equatorial, ecliptic and meridian of Fero graduated in degrees, the oceans showing currents, the Antarctic with largely projected coastline, the continents with nation states hand-outlined in red and brown, showing mountains in orange and towns, cities, rivers and lakes, with a stamped brass meridian half-circle raised on a turned and ebonised wooden column and plinth base
37 5/8in. (95.5cm.) high
H. Kiepert, Stockholm, 1909
JORDGLOB av H. KIEPERT svensk uplaga av ARVID KEMPE Wahlström & Widstrand Stockholm 1909 D. Reimers kartograf. tryckeri, Berlin, made up of two sets of twenty-four chromolithographed half-gores and two graduated polar calottes, with applied equatorial, ecliptic and meridian of Fero graduated in degrees, the oceans showing currents, the Antarctic with largely projected coastline, the continents with nation states hand-outlined in red and brown, showing mountains in orange and towns, cities, rivers and lakes, with a stamped brass meridian half-circle raised on a turned and ebonised wooden column and plinth base
37 5/8in. (95.5cm.) high