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Trippensee Planetarium
Lot: 747Sold for: $646$550Trippensee Planetarium, by Trippensee Planetarium Co., Saginaw, Mich., with 3-inch globe by George F. Cram Co., two sets of twelve printed gores and wood moon-ball rotating via geared mount and more ...
School's Tellurium
Lot: 748Sold for: $1,175$1,000School's Tellurium, with 3-inch diameter globe by G. Thomas, Paris, twelve colored gores and black moon-ball, rotating via a pulley (missing cord) on mahogany arm around a 4-inch painted wood sun, more ...
Brass 11-inch Planetarium
Lot: 749UnsoldBrass 11-inch Planetarium, France, possibly by Delamarche, with 1 1/2-inch sun-ball, triple-geared hand-turned mechanism to revolve the Earth and Moon, ten ivory planets on brass arms, horizon ring more ...
Brass 8-inch Planetarium
Lot: 750Sold for: $1,763$1,500Brass 8-inch Planetarium, France, with 1 1/2-inch sun-ball, double-geared hand-turned mechanism for revolving the Earth and Moon, eight vacant arms for planet discs, engraved meridian, ecliptic and more ...
Primitive 3-inch Painted Celestial Sphere
Lot: 751Sold for: $705$600Primitive 3-inch Painted Celestial Sphere, America, probably early 19th century, with constellations represented by brass pins with (indistinct) pen inscriptions beneath, Equatorial divided 1-24, more ...
Planetarium
Lot: 752Sold for: $588$500Planetarium, Italy, 19th century, with paper label Dono Semigratuito, del Secolo, 1 1/2-inch terrestrial globe and rotating sun and moon discs at the centre of paper-covered red-painted metal sphere more ...
Loring's 12-inch Celestial Globe
Lot: 753Sold for: $1,645$1,400Loring's 12-inch Celestial Globe, with cartouche Loring's Celestial Globe, Containing all the known Stars, Nebulae &c. Compiled from the works of Wollaston, Flamstead, De La Caille, Havelius, Mayer, more ...
Wilson's New 13-inch Celestial Globe
Lot: 754Sold for: $2,350$2,000Wilson's New 13-inch Celestial Globe, with cartouche Wilson's New Thirteen Inch Celestial Globe. Containing the Positions of Nearly 1000 Stars, Clusters, Nebulae &c. Carefully Compil'd & Laid Down more ...
Smith's 12-inch Terrestrial Globe
Lot: 755Sold for: $2,350$2,000Smith's 12-inch Terrestrial Globe, with cartouche Smith's Terrestrial Globe Containing the Whole of the Latest Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the Most Celebrated more ...
Improved 16-inch Terrestrial Floor Globe by Gilman Joslin
Lot: 756Sold for: $3,290$2,800Improved 16-inch Terrestrial Floor Globe by Gilman Joslin, Boston, made up of twelve gores with countries and individual territories shaded in blue, green and pink, some outlined in red, extensively more ...
NASA Hazbot III Prototype Mobile Robot
Lot: 757UnsoldNASA Hazbot III Prototype Mobile Robot, constructed in burnished metal, driven by internal brushless DC motors and batteries, with articulated front and rear wheels, caterpillar tracks, camera, more ...