A "GRAND SOHLBERG" CELESTIAL GLOBE
SWEDISH CIRCA 1880
The 9-inch diameter glass celestial sphere engraved on the outside with the lines of latitude and longitude and the tropic and polar circles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, with applied steel ecliptic band, the interior with a central polar axis, at the centre a miniature terrestrial globe painted with lines of longitude and latitude and coloured continents, with brass mountings at either end, at the South Pole two knurled turning knobs, one for the earth with graduations in hours 1-12 and one for the sphere itself with graduations 1-24, held in a semi-circular gilt and black-painted iron mounting, swivelling on the horizontal axis to move an index against a vertically-mounted brass circle, graduated in 0°-90° in four quadrants, raised on an elegant curved iron arm, the black ground with gilt-painted foliate decoration, to a concave triform tripod base, with splayed cast-iron legs, with a brass plaque affixed SOHLBERG HIMMELSGLOB ÖLLERS & CNI STOCKHOLM 1 TILLVERKAD AF, housed in glazed pine case — with K.H. Sohlberg, Astronomi, Stochholm 1881.
27 x 21 x 21in. (69 x 53 x 53cm.)
A "GRAND SOHLBERG" CELESTIAL GLOBE
SWEDISH CIRCA 1880
The 9-inch diameter glass celestial sphere engraved on the outside with the lines of latitude and longitude and the tropic and polar circles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, with applied steel ecliptic band, the interior with a central polar axis, at the centre a miniature terrestrial globe painted with lines of longitude and latitude and coloured continents, with brass mountings at either end, at the South Pole two knurled turning knobs, one for the earth with graduations in hours 1-12 and one for the sphere itself with graduations 1-24, held in a semi-circular gilt and black-painted iron mounting, swivelling on the horizontal axis to move an index against a vertically-mounted brass circle, graduated in 0°-90° in four quadrants, raised on an elegant curved iron arm, the black ground with gilt-painted foliate decoration, to a concave triform tripod base, with splayed cast-iron legs, with a brass plaque affixed SOHLBERG HIMMELSGLOB ÖLLERS & CNI STOCKHOLM 1 TILLVERKAD AF, housed in glazed pine case — with K.H. Sohlberg, Astronomi, Stochholm 1881.
27 x 21 x 21in. (69 x 53 x 53cm.)
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