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1 1 A 12 inch terrestrial table globe George Philip & Son Ltd, London, circa 1900 The sphere applied with 24 coloured gores with highlighted state borders, land masses, oceans, major cities and shipping routes, with equation of time diagram and trade label SMITH’S 12 in TERRESTRIAL GLOBE showing all the MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES, GEORGE PHILIP & SON LTD, The London Geographical Institute, 32 fleet Street, London E.C. mounted via the poles within a calibrated iron arc above a pedestal base issuing three downswept supports with cast lion’s paw feet, 51cm high. £200-300 4 2 2 A George III twelve inch celestial globe Thomas Bardin for William and Samuel Jones, London, circa 1800 The sphere applied with twelve handcoloured engraved gores annotated with celestial bodies and figural representations of the constellations, with trade inscription THE NEW TWELVE INCH British Celestial Globe, Containing the exact positions of more than 3800 Fix’d Stars, Nebulae, Planetary Discoveries and Observations, of Dr. Maskelyne, Dr. Herschell, and other eminent Astromoners, And adjusted to the present period... with retailers label SOLD BY W. & S. Jones, Holborn, London beneath, mounted via the poles in a vertical graduated brass ring set into a mahogany pedestal stand with papers annotated for months of the year, signs of the Zodiac and other calibrations to the horizon ring, on three outswept supports with glazed compass mounted between, some damage and losses to lower pole area of globe, 85cm high overall. £1,500-2,000 2 (detail) 3 3 A Victorian lacquered brass demonstration gyroscope John Davies, London, circa 1870 The phosphor-bronze flywheel pivoted within a brass ring with hook at one end and supported in a cradle, the apparatus mounted via a sleeve pivot onto a brass column upright with disc base signed John Davies, LONDON, 22cm high, in original mahogany box with brass weights, now with later dished pine cradle to facilitate pull-start. Provenance: The property of a descendant of John Davies. The original wooden starting cradle was lost during an air raid on the premises of Davies Brothers Weston-super-Mare in 1942 (see following lot for biographical footnote). £300-500 www.dnfa.com/donnington
4 A fine Victorian lacquered brass and mahogany Orrery John Davies, London, circa 1870 The shaped mahogany baseboard mounted with circular lacqueredbrass ring divided for the months of the year annotated with signs of the Zodiac and figures relating to the actual distance of the earth from the sun in miles every two months, two of the five crossings signed John Davies, LONDON, the centre with silvered Solar sphere (or optional candle) rotated via an ivory-handled crank engaging with the contrate wheel beneath, which in turn is mounted with arm applied with an angled terrestrial globe pivoted on a further pulley to allow controlled rotation during its motion around the sun, the baseboard further applied with distant sphere representing Mars with its two moons rotating on a fixed pivot via a line connection with the contrate pulley beneath the Solar sphere, the whole raised on three turned bun feet, 79cm long, with original pine box containing optional candle to represent the sun (with brass stand) and an extensive series of original annotated watercolour rendered drawings relating to every aspect of the design and construction of the instrument, many dated December 1867. Provenance: Property of a descendant of John Davies. John Davies was born in Tetbury 1839. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker in London; however his interest in scientific instruments was such that he designed and made several one-off examples for his own use, the current and previous lots being two of them. Photography was another interest which resulted in him setting up in business, in partnership with his brother Martin, as photographers, printers, booksellers and stationers at 14 High Street, Weston-super-Mare in 1873. ‘Davies Brothers’ continued to trade after John’s death in 1919 until the premises was destroyed in an air raid in 1942. The current lot incorporates a 1.5 inch terrestrial globe by Newton & Sons dated to circa 1830. An identical globe from the same source is offered as the following lot. The brass ring is annotated with the actual distances of the earth from the sun every two months to allow the observer to appreciate the fact that the motion of the earth follows an elliptic rather than an exact circular orbit. The two moons orbiting Mars (Phobos and Deimos) were not officially discovered until 1877 by the American astronomer Asaph Hall Sn’r. This fact suggests that the bodies around the sphere representing Mars on the current lot must have been incorporated during later design stages. £2,500-3,500 01635 553553 5
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