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A Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe, English, circa 1776, image 1
A Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe, English, circa 1776, image 2
Lot 2

A Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe,
English, circa 1776,

In the Palm of your Hand: Small is Beautiful
23 February 2022, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe, English, circa 1776,

the cartouche printed A New Globe of the EARTH by N.Lane, outside the cartouche printed 1776 Prockter fc, the sphere with twelve printed gores, hand coloured and detailing Anson's and Captain Cook's tracks, Tasmania is labelled Dimes Land and is attached to mainland Australia and California is represented as a peninsula, in fish skin covered case with inner hemisphere applied with two sets of twelve half gores printed with the celestial globe,
3in (7.5cm) diameter in case

Footnotes

Lane was recorded as living in Southwark by 1783, but otherwise there is little known information for this maker beyond his pocket globes. The 2 ¾-inch globes such as the present example would have derived from copper plates used for earlier Cushee pocket globes.

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