(ORRERY) Metal and wood American orrery

Sale 2131 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 6,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

(ORRERY.) Metal and wood American orrery, with all movable parts present, 360x515 mm greatest measurements; earth with multi-colored paper gores on which is traced in manuscript the route of a Graf Zeppelin circumnavigation and Byrd's polar route; contained in the original wooden case, broken. Saginaw: Trippensee Planetarium Co., circa 1900

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All movable parts present but earth movement not operating. A bit of oil and loosening should be all that is needed.