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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.
Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
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knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages. Technology<br />
with comparable complexity did not re-emerge in Europe<br />
until the 14th century.<br />
The present example is an astrological timepiece<br />
popularised during the Age of Enlightenment. This<br />
intellectual movement dominated European culture in the<br />
17th and 18th century. The Enlightenment emphasised<br />
reason and science over superstition and faith to an<br />
increasingly literate population. This drove the development<br />
and dissemination of scientific equipment like orreries.<br />
This particular orrery models the orbit of the earth and the<br />
outer planets around the sun. The earth completes a solar<br />
orbit every 365.256 days. In this journey the earth travels<br />
940 million kilometres in a counter-clockwise direction<br />
at a speed of nearly 30 kilometres per second, or 67,000<br />
miles per hour.<br />
$18,000–25,000<br />
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