AUTHENTIC MODELS Kai Multi-Colored Navigator's Terrestrial Globe

Decorative and well-executed globe from the age of exploration. Stand is detailed turned wood, French finish. Exact reproduction of 16th Century Mercator globe, hand applied paper gores. Twelve paper gores applied to the globe are printed after originals drawn by Gerardus Mercator, the inventor of the Mercator projection, which was used from the 16th Century until the middle of the 20th Century Scientific, decorative, historical.