The Blank Slate Globe

by Forrest Shepherd

$2,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Circa 1865? 6” blank black globe, painted wood with ring of tiny nails encircling the north pole and corresponding nails tracing the equator, attached to brass meridian ring stamped “Shepherds. Patent Dec. 22. 1857,” set in original wooden stand on three turned and varnished legs with brass horizon ring set in black wood horizon circle with a hand-brake attached to the underside; height approx. 9”. A note affixed to the underside of

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