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Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
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Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.
Nicolas Lane was recorded as living in Southwark by 1783, but otherwise there is scant information on this maker beyond his pocket globes. The present 2 ¾-inch example would have derived from copper plates of the celestial counterpart of earlier Cushee pocket globes. In contrast, the tradition of the larger, 3-inch Lane globes is not yet known.