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Auction archive: Lot number 126

A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY

Estimate
£16,000 - £26,000
ca. US$25,273 - US$41,068
Price realised:
£97,250
ca. US$153,613
Auction archive: Lot number 126

A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY

Estimate
£16,000 - £26,000
ca. US$25,273 - US$41,068
Price realised:
£97,250
ca. US$153,613
Beschreibung:

A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY
W. JONES, CIRCA 1787
A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY W. Jones circa 1787 A NEW PORTABLE ORRERY Invented and Made by W. Jones and Sold by him in Holborn. LONDON , the hand-coloured engraved paper dial with calendrical and zodiacal scales, giving seasons, solstices and equinoxes, as well as the sizes of the planets and a comet, the tellurian above this on a multi-wheel geared mechanism, with engraved paper dials, ivory earth ball, ivory moon on inclined orbit, brass sunball and oil lamp; in a fitted mahogany case with pull-out box for ungeared orrery attachment, the planets and satellites in ivory, spare brass planet -- with The desctription and use of a new portable orrery... a 1787 publication by William Jones with two folding plates and 4pp. of his catalogue of instruments, in modern half-leather binding. 8in. (20cm.) diameter

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
29 September 2011, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY
W. JONES, CIRCA 1787
A GEORGE III PORTABLE ORRERY W. Jones circa 1787 A NEW PORTABLE ORRERY Invented and Made by W. Jones and Sold by him in Holborn. LONDON , the hand-coloured engraved paper dial with calendrical and zodiacal scales, giving seasons, solstices and equinoxes, as well as the sizes of the planets and a comet, the tellurian above this on a multi-wheel geared mechanism, with engraved paper dials, ivory earth ball, ivory moon on inclined orbit, brass sunball and oil lamp; in a fitted mahogany case with pull-out box for ungeared orrery attachment, the planets and satellites in ivory, spare brass planet -- with The desctription and use of a new portable orrery... a 1787 publication by William Jones with two folding plates and 4pp. of his catalogue of instruments, in modern half-leather binding. 8in. (20cm.) diameter

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
29 September 2011, London, South Kensington
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