Trippensee Planetarium
Saginaw, MI. c.1960
Bakelite arm, metal, wood
13 inches high; 21 inches long full extended; 7.5 inch diameter base
A geared tellurian by Trippensee, with a terrestrial globe rotating at the end of a maroon colored bakelite arm, and with a black-and-white painted wood representation of the moon on a metal rod arm revolving the earth,
both revolving around a central yellow dense plastic sphere representing the sun, and with a black-and-white painted wood representation of Venus on a metal rod arm also revolving the sun.
The entire assembly is mounted on a turned ebonized wooden central standard, set on a round, stepped, maroon colored dense plastic base, with a circular zodiac dial affixed to the top.
There is a small, round compass inset on the top of the arm beside a raised oval label with the company name.
When turned by hand by a post beneath the arm, the earth rotates, and the earth, moon and Venus revolve.The three-inch terrestrial globe has simple cartography: oceans are colored blue, a few major cities are shown, continents are green, yellow, blue and cream, with the U.S. and Alaska differentiated by a dot pattern from the rest of North America.
With minor damage to the paper covering the globe.



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