Clark & Co Anchor Sewing Cottons Globe Miniatuur globe, 1873

Clark & Co Anchor Sewing Cottons Globe Miniatuur globe. Diameter 7,5 cm total height 10 cm.

A 7.6 cm diameter miniature terrestrial "thread" globe made up of two wooden hemispheres, each laid with twelve coloured printed gores, the antimeridian graduated in degress, the ecliptic graduated in  days of the houses of the zodiac with symbols, the continents with nation states delicately shaded in green, yellow and orange and showing rivers, towns and cities, the Congo not shown, Alaska shown in American. Raised on a simple ebonised baluster turned plinth base, the northern hemisphere being removable to reveal an interior for storing cotton, a trade label to the interior of the lid reading ''Clark & Co Anchor Sewing Cottons The best for hand an machine use''.

The lithographed paper bears a Registration Diamond with the letter E dating this item to 1873.The whole globe and base are in excellent condition with no damage evident.

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