H. Schedler's 12-inch Celestial Globe

H. Schedler's 12-inch Celestial Globe, Jersey City, New Jersey, c. 1868, the twelve engraved and hand-colored gores laid on a wooden sphere with cartouche reading in part, H. Schedler's Celestial Globe Exhibiting all the stars visible to the naked eye up to the sixth magnitude , the constellations labeled and represented as stylized mythological figures, beasts and instruments of science in red, brass meridian ring, hour circle, engraved and printed horizon band on wood with calendar, all resting on a stylized tri-foot pine base, ht. 20 in. Provenance: Collection of Vera Rubin.