Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Trippensee Planetarium,The Trippensee Planetarium Mfg. Co., Detroit Michigan, with 3-in. twelve-gore terrestrial globe, black-and-white painted-wood moon ball, geared and chain-drive mechanism on maple arm with maker's plaque and compass, spinning and rotating around 5-in. mercury glass sun and circling black-and-white painted Venus, on turned column to stepped patinated-metal base with calendar, total wd. 22 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
Case door not original, and lacking label.
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