A pair of 12-inch German celestial and terrestrial large table globes
Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century 25-1/2 in. (63.5 cm.) height on stand each. 2
Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century
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Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century
Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century
25-1/2 in. (63.5 cm.) height on stand each. (2)
Footnotes
Paul Räth (1881-1929) was an author and publisher, founding a company publishing educational aids in Leipzig, Germany in 1917. From the start, the company manufactured globes and continued for at least 80 years. Their product lines included political and physical globes, relief globes, celestial globes, tellurians, and a lunar globe.
Reference:
Allmayer-Beck, Peter E., ed. Modelle der Welt: Erd-und Himmelsgloben -- Kulturerbe aus oesterreichischen Sammlungen. [Models Of The World: Terrestrial And Celestial Globes -- Cultural Inheritance from Austrian Collections.] Vienna, Bibliophile Edition/Christian Brandstaetter Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. pp. 214-215, 298, 384.