A Good c.1885 French Terrestrial Table Globe; “Globe Terrestre” prepared by J FOREST, Paris sub-Antiques An impressive and sizeable piece

An impressive and sizeable piece of graphic design that is highly prized in decorative terms today

Rod mounted on an ebonised circular plinth stand the dried starfish having five rays radiating from the central disc

holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird

on a sham point of order

having a top and front polychrome painted with swallows frolicking amongst a blossoming tree

A Good c.1885 French Terrestrial Table Globe; “Globe Terrestre” prepared by J FOREST, Paris sub-Antiques An impressive and sizeable pieceOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1890 Height: 23(the whole) Width: 16 at widest point Base Diameter: 7 The attractive and well proportioned paper, plaster and cardboard, fourteen inch terrestrial table globe concerned with physics, politics and history, rotating in a calibrated brass basket frame with brass meridian circle, horizon ring and hour ring, supported by four brass quadrants standing on the original