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Trippensee Planetarium

Vintage Industrial Style Manually Operational Astrological Planetarium
Located in Brooklyn, NY
piece, closest to a Tellurium, Planetarium or Trippensee in categorization, though lacking (by design
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Vintage 1950s American Globes

Materials

Metal, Steel, Tin

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