Article on antique globes in "Wingspan"
Please find below some photos of the article on terrestrial and celestial globes.
The journalist has been inspired by our terrestrial and celestial globes that you can find in our Marine and Sciences heading.
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New objects
- Automate gadget cane representing a parrot made in England at the end of the 19th century
- Powerful four legs brass dividers made in France circa 1790/1800
- Meerschaum pipe representing a sea creature
- Imposing 19th century opium pipe made of nine black horn discs
- Ivory diptych sundial signed Nicolaus Miller made circa 1650
- Photos of the exhibition "Circinus" at the Galileo Museum in Florence
- Brass and silver octagonal equatorial sundial made in France circa 1680
- Antique cane with handle representing a duck's head
- Antique cane with Milord-shaped handle made of Meissen porcelain
- Compass made in Germany circa 1730 in its original case
- Cane with cigarette holder system from the Art Deco period
- Antique cane with ivory handle representing a greyhound
- Boxwood rasp made by Cesar Bagard in Nancy at the end of the 17th century
- Short opium pipe with tube made up of eight pieces of turned bone
- Exceptional cane in polychrome porcelain representing a woman in bust
- Large wooden octant of Hadley type made in England circa 1750/1770
- Impressive black stained turned wood microscope made in Germany circa 1780