Gilman Joslin
16-Inch Celestial Tripod Floor Globe
Boston: c. 1880s
Painted wooden stand
43 inches high
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Joslin 16-Inch Celestial Floor Globe
19th Century
19th Century
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Raised on Aesthetic Movement stand, comprising three turned ebonized legs with leaf-painted decoration. These stands are typically American, and are generally found with globes by Gilman Joslin, Boston, and sometimes with globes by Franklin, of Troy, New York.
Gilman Joslin was one of America's most prolific globe makers. Read more about him in our Guide to Globe Makers.
Cartouche on Horizon Band: IMPROVED GLOBE, BOSTON./ MANUFACTURED BY GILMAN JOSLIN,/ CORRECTED TO DATE./ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by Charles Copley in/ the Clerks office, of the District Court, of the Southern District of New York./
References:
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. pp. 126, 140, 176.
How to Use a Globe, Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes/ Joslin’s Hand-book to the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Gilman Joslin & Son, Manufacturers and Dealers, 5 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts: [n.d., but c. 1890], pp. 3-4.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, Vol. 2, No. 3. 1987. pp. 100-103.
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968. pp. 37-38.