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TELLURIAN; TRIPPENSEE CO.
The Trippensee Planetarium. Detroit, Mich: The Trippensee Mfg. Co, 1908.

22 October 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

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TELLURIAN; TRIPPENSEE CO.

The Trippensee Planetarium. Detroit, Mich: The Trippensee Mfg. Co, 1908.
A 14½ inch tall, 18½ inch long Trippensee tellurian, in original wood case with label. Fitted with a 3 inch (7.6 cm) diameter terrestrial globe with 12 color printed gores over papier mâché and plaster, signed within shield shaped cartouche in Pacific, with a 1 inch diameter wooden moon painted black & white rotating around it on a geared metal arm, the two revolving around a central 6 inch (14.8 cm) diameter brass sun which has a wooden 2 inch diameter planet Venus painted black and white rotating around it on a metal arm, all mounted on geared mechanisms on a maple arm with metal label and small compass, on turned wood stand with round brass base printed with seasons, signs of the zodiac and months.

An excellent example of a Trippensee tellurian, a model which demonstrates the rotation of the moon around the earth, and the rotations of the earth and Venus around the sun, as well as the phases of the moon and Venus from the sun.

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