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Felix DELAMARCHE and Charles Dien
An early 19th-Century French armillary sphere, constructed of pasteboard and paper card, printed circles, the planetary discs arranged on brass arms, with gilded sun ball, miniature earth arranged to rotate via a cord pulley, mounted on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 20¼-inches (51.4cm.) high
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An early 19th-Century French armillary sphere, constructed of pasteboard and paper card, printed circles, the planetary discs arranged on brass arms, with gilded sun ball, miniature earth arranged to rotate via a cord pulley, mounted on a turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 20¼-inches (51.4cm.) high
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