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Georama ltd London, 1970 Diameter: 76,2 cm Total height: 137 cm. Age: 1970 Description:
Terrestrial library lamp globe made up of two sets of eighteen
chromolithographed gores laid onto an opaque fibreglass sphere, the
equatorial graduated in hours and minutes in both directions and in
degrees, the meridian of Greenwhich and the equinoctial colure graduated
in degrees. The with an analemma and shipping routes with ports of
arrival and departure and journey time in nautical miles. Antarctica
with the extend of polar ice, the continents with the countries
variously coloured and showing details such as cities, railways,
airports, rivers, deserts, swamps and the Chinese wall. The globe has a
Perspex hour dial and meridian circle mounted on a waisted octagonal
wooden stand, housing a motor for turning the sphere and with on and off
switches for the motor and the lamp inside. This globe is very rare in
this condition. Most globes have may areas of paper loss due to the way
the paper was glued to the sphere and the production of heat of the
lamps inside. This globe is completely restored and and has now energy
saving lamps Cartouche: Made in England by Georama limited, 12-14 Long Acre, Lodon, W.C.2, Designers of fine illuminated globes and maps, 30" 76cm diameter, terrestrial globe, scale 1:17.000.000 NOT FOR SALE |
