An American Brass, Ebonised Wood and Parcel Green and Gold-Painted Telluric Indicator with a Joslin's Six-Inch Terrestrial Globe, 19th Century

the circular base with pierced foliate central section surrounded by a hand-coloured engraved paper calendar scale around the circumference showing the path of the ecliptic, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with a central brass Sunball on a rod over three gear wheels; the globe composed of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, inscribed JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the latest Discoveries. BOSTON Gilman Joslin Drawn and Engraved by W. B. Annin, mounted in a brass meridian ring

diameter of base 9 3/8in.

23.8 cm