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Lot 10
Two Antique Parisian Miniature Terrestrial Globes, including J. Lebegue & Cie.
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Circa 1900, both globes with gores printed in French, the smaller a 2 1/2 inch pasteboard globe by J. Lebegue & Cie, on an ebonized turned wood stand (5 in.); the larger a 4 in. globe, unsigned, with ink outlined continents, mounted atop a German silverplate stand with mark of Wurtemberg Metalware Factory (circa 1909 company mark) (8 3/4 in.).

Private Collection of an Antiquarian, Charlotte, North Carolina

Some age toning and a few small surface marks to globes; smaller globe's apex with small tatter at mount; silverplate stand globe with denting at United States.