Portland Scientific Instruments

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite original Circa 1860-1880 Globe Terrestre by J Lebegue & Cie on an ornately cast sw...

Vintage floor globe. The stand is made out of solid wood with a metal detail at the bottom, and is 26 3/4" high and 22.5" wide. The globe is most likely also made oit of wood and com...

Toledo Scale Company Model 8400A. Features an enameled green porcelain finish and tiled station. Features the iconic Art Deco Skyscraper design with a ...

Offered here for your consideration is, A fine antique 6-inch terrestrial globe. Additional Details: By C.S. Hammond & Co. The globe likely dates from 1927 to 1930 due to the ...

Large antique 19th century Turkish incense burner or fire pit with pierced brass and solid brass ornamentation. Museum quality Islamic collector metalwork piece footed incense censer...

Crams Imperial World Globe Floor Standing Globe On A Turned Hardwood & Brass Stand Model No 16 Manufactured by George F Cram Co. Indiana, U.S.A

A cast iron mortar with a bas-relief band in the center.

Carved oak dinner gong, the oak frame with mask pediment above a leaf-carved scroll decorated frame supporting the original brass gong. All raised on scrolling legs. Dimensions Heigh...

Terrestrial globe printed by W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland and distributed by Nystrom & Co., Chicago. This globe dates to the 1950's. The globe is metal as is the stand...

A miniature 19th century 3.5 inch diameter pocket terrestrial globe by C. Abel-Klinger, Nuremberg, Germany, in English for the English speaking markets. Signed with cartouche reading...

Antique 20th Century English cast iron desk bell crafted in the form of a tortoise. The bell mechanism beneath, once wound up, can be rung by pressing either the head or tail, and it...

Celestial globe compiled on the Hesi & Gould catalogs by Eng. Pini and published in 1889 by Gussoni & Dotti Milano piazza del Duomo. Sphere in paper mache covered with paper printed by engraving on copper plate and hand watercolored, base in turned and ebonized wood. Good condition, conservative restoration at the base. Measures: Height 45 cm, inche 17.8, sphere diameter 22 cm 8.7. Giovanni Gussoni in 1874 bought the business of Antonio Ronchi typographer in Via Unione 5 in Milan, and then moved in 1883 to the shop of the Southern Porticoes in Piazza Duomo. Giovanni Gussoni was followed by his son Vittorio, who on April 16, 1907 sold the company to a collaborator, Giovanni Serra, who continued the business until November 1914. Man has always wanted to know the world in which he lives and has used all the means available to measure the space that surrounds him to expand his knowledge more and more. The conditions that allowed man to develop models of the world and space were probably realized only after...