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5-Inch Celestial and Terrestrial Globe Bookends
Dietrich Reimer, Berlin: 1954

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Dietrich Reimer
5-Inch Terrestrial & Celestial Globe Bookends
Berlin: 1954
7.25 inches tall
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Pair of terrestrial and celestial globe bookends in the Biedermeir taste. Each is mounted on a rectangular, beveled, blonde wood base, and has a wooden half meridian with inset applied metallic paper calibrations. The terrestrial globe has blue oceans and geographic entities in a variety of colors. The celestial globe has a deep blue night sky and white stars, the magnitudes of the stars indicated with corresponding key, the constellations boxed to show their relative locations, and milky way shown.

For more information on Dietrich Reimer, please see our Guide to Globe Makers.

Terrestrial cartouche: Junior/ ERDGLOBUS/ 1:100 000 000/ Kartogr. Institut/ Dietrich Reimer/ Berlin/ 1954

Celestial cartouche: STERNGLOBUS Kleiner Bär/ ANBLICK DES HIMMELS/ VON DER ERDE AUS/ BEARBEITET VON H. MÜHLE/ {key to star magnitudes}/ STERNBILDGRENZEN {key to constellation borders}/ DIETRICH REIMER BERLIN

Celestial cartouche translation: Star Globe/ Little Bear [Ursa Minor]/ View of the Heavens/ from the Earth out/ Edited by H. Mühle/ Constellation Boundaries/ Dietrich Reimer, Berlin

References:

Allmayer-Beck, Peter E., ed. Modelle der Welt: Erd-und Himmelsgloben -- Kulturerbe aus oesterreichischen Sammlungen [Models Of The World: Terrestrial And Celestial Globes -- Cultural Inheritance from Austrian Collections] Vienna: Bibliophile Edition/Christian Brandstaetter Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. p. 299.

Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. pp. 151, 159.