Lot 3078
A 4-inch pocket globe
MPS; Germany, second quarter 19th century 4-1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diameter of box.
MPS; Germany, second quarter 19th century
26 January 2011, 13:00 EST
New YorkSold for US$2,440 inc. premium
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MPS; Germany, second quarter 19th century
MPS; Germany, second quarter 19th century
[signed], within a circular cartouche in the Southern Ocean:MPS; a terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac, the continents delicately shaded and strongly outlined in green, showing nation states in dotted outline, rivers, mountains, deserts and some cities, with two iron axis pins, contained in a circular card box [cover missing].
4-1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diameter of box.
4-1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diameter of box.
Footnotes
It has previously been accepted that these globes marked MPS were manufactured by the workshop of Johann, Carl and Peter Bauer in Nuremburg, due to the similarity (in some cases identical) between miniature globes found with the initials MPS and JBB, CB, or PB.