DESCRIPTION:
France, an unusual desk compendium, with celestial and terrestrial globes by Delamarche, the trapezoidal clock case on an onyx and brass base, supporting a central pilaster with thermometer, and surmounted by a barometer and compass, and with flanking, lithographed globes, signed "Delamarche Rue Serpente 25 Paris", Roman numeral silvered dial, blued steel distaff hands, 8 day timepiece movement with cylinder platform
CONDITION:
onyx with minor flakes, brass dirty and with tarnish, clock dial and other silvered scales with tarnish, hands with oxidation and loss to blue, globes with minor losses and minor scuffs, celestial globe with band of discoloration, movement gummy, not running, balance staff good
ESTIMATE:
$800
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$1200
PRICE SOLD:
$1100
CIRCA: 1870
DIMENSIONS: 15.5in x 11in x 5in
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