Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2555MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: July 16, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Murdock & Company 5-inch Globe and Stand, West Boylston, Massachusetts, c. 1835, a wooden sphere with twelve printed gores and polar calottes, maker's cartouche in Pacific Ocean marked Made by D. C. & A. Murdock, West Boylston, Mass., Europe, North America and New Holland shaded in green with principal continents labeled, the stand with printed horizon ring, signs of the zodiac and calendar all on three legs.
Estimate $800-1,200
lacking brass meridian ring, paper losses and cracks on horizon ring,