Vetter Ideal & Russel Hawks Co. 1919 Patent Tellurians
A fine pair of German and American Tellurians by Vetter Ideal & Russell Hawks Co., respectively, holding the same 1919 patent type.
20th Century- American
1919 Russel Hawks Co. Tellurian
1919 Universal Planetarium by Russel Hawks Co. American made. 3-inch terrestrial globe made up of twelve gores, white-painted wooden moon with metal shadow, metal arm with maker's plaque and inset compass, spinning and rotating around 6-inch brass sun and circling black-and-white Venus via geared system, on turned wooden column to metal base with circular calendar, with green painted metal case, 12 1/4 x 19 inches.
An engraved inscription at the centre of the arm that supports the globe reads "UNIVERSAL PLANETARIUM/ PAT. JAN.. 7 1919/ RUSSELL-HAWKES Co./ KANSAS CITY MO.
Featured in The Royal Museums Greenwich at England's National Maritime Museum.
Featured in Norway's Museumssenteret i Hordaland (MUHO).
20th Century- German
1919 Vetter Ideal Tellurian
20th Century German Tellurian by Vetter Ideal. Reproducing the motions of our Universe as it documents the rotations of Earth, the Moon and Venus around our Sun. Exquisite in display as well as function. Marked "Copyright The Vetter Co., Buffalo, N.Y.", Globe marked "The George F. Cram Co.". Lithographed base.