GEORGE III CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE RETAILED BY W & S JONES, HOLBORN, LONDON, DATED 1800

The 12-inch globe on a turned mahogany stand.

J. & R. Ferris Antiques, New York.

Decorative. The globe appears to have been re-positioned and there is much wear and fragmenting to the surface. Filled repairs. There are losses to the varnished finish. Later metal finial. Old marks and scuffs to surface. Stained. The mahogany support with splits and old marks. Losses to x-form stretcher. Brass later lacquered. Later batons to underside of [papered mahogany ring to strengthen.the globe printed THE / NEW TWELVE INCH / British Celestial Globe / Containing the exact positions of constellations FIXD / To the latest Discoveries and Observations of / Dr Mayles & Dr Herschel and other eminent / Astronomers and adjusted to the Present Period 1800.
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