Terrestrial globe A. ROGER & F. CHERNOVIZ, Paris, late 19th century.
Traced by J. Forest.
Wood, metal and paper.
Measures: 48 x 34 x 34 cm.
Terrestrial globe raised on a base of turned and ebonized wood, with line of the Equator and Greenwich Meridian in graduated metal. The terrestrial sphere presents political and geographical indications, as well as the representation of parallels and meridians according to the last discoveries and the political divisions of the last treaties up to the moment. The globe is the only geographical representation that does not suffer distortion. They are usually mounted, as we see here, on an angled support, which facilitates their use by representing at the same time the angle of the planet with respect to the sun and its own rotation. This makes it easy to visualize how the days and seasons change.
J. Forest, French geographer engineer, made and edited a large number of globes between the late nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth century in Paris. He was a supplier of school material, atlases and globes for the French Ministry of Public Instruction. The piece in question was published by A. Roger and F. Chernoviz in Paris, a publishing house that produced a large number of globes at different scales and for different markets: German, American, Spanish, French and English, especially during the golden age of French art deco.
Measurements: 48 x 34 x 34 cm.

It shows signs of use evidenced by the passage of time.