Britannia Desk Globe Walnut

£599.00 BUY

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  • Publisher: Bellerby Globes
  • EAN/ISBN: 9786000500900
  • Size: Diameter 22.9cm, Weight 3kg
  • Binding: Globe
The stylish and hand crafted Britannia Desk Globe by Bellerby & Co. is a truly astonishing contemporary piece boasting unique details and beauty.

The up to date globe, painted in distinctive tones of blue and sepia, sits elegantly on a sturdy walnut wooden modern base.

The cartography, correct as of 2011, shows country and regional borders, rivers and capitals. Names of mountain ranges, seas and oceans are indicated as well as longitude at 10 degree intervals, equator and tropics lines. The information is lettered in a custom 18th-century font designed by James Mosley, a distinguished typographer who ran St Bride's printing library on Fleet Street for most of the last half of the nineteenth century.

The solid 7 cm high base is made of American Black Walnut wood, fitted with roller bearings to enable fluid movement in any direction by hand. It comes in its own bespoke, luxury carry case.

Produced in a limited edition, the Bellerby Britannia desk globe is an impressive, timeless and exclusive piece.

More information about this globe:

The mapping is firstly printed to an impression of 2,800 dots per inch, in outline with light coastal shadow. The gores are each hand cut, then laid on the globe using a technique Bellerby have developed, similar to traditional methods. Each globe is then skilfully and delicately hand painted using the best available pigments which Bellerby mix to make their own colours. Several thin coats of clear gloss varnish are applied to the finished globe to enhance and protect from UV the finished edition.
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