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Object number
W-52
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Object name
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Title
Globe: Pocket
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Description
Terrestrial globe with 12 engraved, hand-colored gores and 2 polar caps. Brass polar collars. Celestial globe on printed and hand-colored paper. 24 gores with 2 polar caps. External projection. Hinged spherical wooden case covered in shagreen with celestial globe lining. Two latch hooks missing. Non-Ptolemaic constellations.
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Inscription/Sig.
"A/NEW/Terrestrial/GLOBE/by/Nath Hill/1754".
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Material
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Place Of Prod.
England
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