Sold for:
$711
$711
6-inch Ernst Schotte & Co. Celestrial Globe, Berlin, twenty-four gores with cream-colored background, blue mythological depictions of the constellations and black lettering on a metal sphere, two calottes laid on the celestrial poles, cartouche reading Berlin, Geor. artist. Anstalt von Ernst Schotte & Co. , engraved brass meridian calibrated 0-90-0 , brass equatorial calibrated in degrees within a knurled ring, on an iron base, ht. 8 1/4 in. some toning under the lacquer, very minor losses.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-07-25
