PHILIP, George & Son (fl. 1834-), London

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PHILIP, George & Son (fl. 1834-), London
By the Queen's Royal Letters Patent BETTS'S NEW PORTABLE GLOBE. Compiled from THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES. London. George Philip & Son. 32 Fleet Street Liverpool. Philip Son & Nephew.
A 16-inch (41cm.) diameter terrestrial collapsible globe, made up of eight colour printed fabric gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours (in Roman numerals), the ecliptic graduated in days and showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the Antipodes of Greenwich marked, the countries individually coloured, Alaska coloured as an American possession (some soiling, short tears and wear to extremities of gores), mounted on black enamelled brass umbrella-type frame with suspension loop.

Literature

Elly Dekker and Peter van der Krogt Globes from the Western World (London, 1993)
Tom Lamb and Jeremy P. Collins (ed.) The World In Your Hands (London, 1994)

Lot Essay

John Betts (fl. 1839-63) was a London publisher of educational material, who produced his Patent Portable Globe from circa 1860. The Betts globe is illustrated and described by Dekker and van der Krogt on p. 127, fig. 60, and in The World In Your Hands as item 1.6: "[this globe was] first produced by John Betts, and after his death, reissued by the geographical publishers George Philip and Son until the early part of this century".

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