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A celestial globe mounted in a rectangular wooden box for shipboard navigation using star locations.  The globe has a calibrated full brass meridian, mounted in a circular brass directional horizon band, which in turn is set within a detachable hemisphere made of four graduated altitude quadrants surmounted by a ball finial.  The entire assembly is mounted with paper instructions in a mahogany rectangular box with rectangular brass escutcheon on the keyhole, closing with two eyehooks.

A nearly identical globe is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (see Reference below).

Cartouche:  CARY & CO./ Makers to the Admiralty/ 7 PALL MALL/ LONDON

Horizon Engraved:  CARY, LONDON.  Maker.  No. 2546.

Reference:

Dekker, Elly, et al. Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. London: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1999.  pp. 300-303 (see illustration for GLB0050).