Columbus 20 51 50, 1960

Diameter: 50 cm

Total height: 100 cm.

Age: approx. 1960

Description: This globe is professionally handmade. This globe is a masterpiece of traditional globe making. With the production of this globe everything is very well planned. Quality first, not speed of production. This is a rare nice globe with iron foot and iron meridian

The production this globe is shaped by innovative technology and manual work. This globe is a masterpiece of traditional globe manufacturing. In the case of its production nothing is left to the coincidence. Here precision and not speed counts. Like that the manufacturing mouth-blown 51 cm large crystal glass ball is a genuine challenge. There are world-wide only a handful of glass artists able to make these globes. Therefore it takes also several days to convert the selected materials with much experience, ability and passion to a cartographic and optical masterpiece.

The globe is set in a circular messing graduated merdian which is set in a massif wood from a nut tree

This globe is still being made and costs at the moment approximately  €5.000,-

Condition: The globe is in very good condition.

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