Additional information
Globe Type | Terrestrial |
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Material | Iron |
Century | 20th Century |
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Terrestrial Globe Lamp Shade
Probably English, Second Half, 19th Century
Painted glass globe
An unusual hand-painted glass terrestrial globe. It was mostly likely made for use as a globe shade on a Victorian kerosene lamp. The flat cut out portion on the bottom is designed so it could rest on the shade holder of the lamp, and the flat cut out portion on the top allowed the glass lamp chimney to extend upwards. The shade is white milk glass and the geographical entities are uncolored and thus show as white. Waters are shaded light tan. The painted geographical borders and place names are black.
Geography is very simple; the continents are named and select countries, oceans, cities, states, and rivers are labeled. The United States names only New York, Florida, California, and Boston and just the St. Lawrence, Columbia and Mississippi Rivers. Cape Colony (a British colony) is shown at the tip of southern Africa indicating a date of no later than 1910. This and other geography indicates that the lamp shade was probably made in England.
Condition: Generally very good, with the usual light overall toning, handling, wear. Coloration and place names in oceans with scattered light fading.
Globe Type | Terrestrial |
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Material | Iron |
Century | 20th Century |