$2,585
School's Tellurium by Ernst Schotte, Berlin, the 4 1/2-inch dia. globe made up of twelve gores and Northern polar calotte, labeled in French, with cartouche Globe Terestre, Berlin, E. Schotte & Co. , with continents colored dark yellow, Australia and America also outlined in pink, America labeled with major cities and the states California, Texas and Florida, rotating with silver-painted Moon ball on geared arm around candle and parabellum representing the Sun, on bronzed cast-iron base with fluted column supporting hand-turned mechanism, paper horizon ring (losses), and counterweight, ht. 17 x total lg. 28 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-03-24