# 16154

Weber and Costello Co.

An 18 inch table globe

$7,500.00 AUD

Chicago, Illinois : Weber Costello, [c.1925]. Measuring 18 inches (46cm) in diameter.

Terrestrial globe shows the city of Leningrad, changed from Petrograd in 1924, but noticeably lacking the state of Central Australia, which existed between 1927-1931.

In bronzed cast iron meridian and stand, with sympathetic facsimile calendrical paper horizon ring, laid on wood. With an analemma and two polar calottes. Standing in bronzed cast iron, paw-footed tripod base, with flower and ribbon decoration.

C. F. Weber & Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews & Co. in 1896, renamed Weber Costello in 1909.