Accession No
4547
Brief Description
model showing the areas of the British Empire and the areas of world in daylight at any given time, made for the Children’s Encyclopaedia, by George F. Morrell, English, early to mid-20th Century
Origin
England
Maker
Morrell, George F. The Children’s Encyclopaedia [publisher]
Class
miscellaneous; games; ephemera
Earliest Date
1908
Latest Date
1964
Inscription Date
Material
paper (card); metal (brass); rope (string)
Dimensions
breadth 151mm; height 181mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from Trevor Philip and Sons Ltd., London, on 06/06/1996.
Inscription
‘WHY THE SUN NEVER SETS UPON THE BRITISH EMPIRE’ (top)
Description Notes
Partly masked card map of the world, rotates to show the parts of the world in day light. The areas of the British Empire are coloured pink.
Condition fair (bent corners, discoloured); complete
References
Events
Description
The Children’s Encyclopaedia was published between 1908 and 1964 as a series of alphabetical 8-volume set of books. For the first two years of its publication, the encyclopaedia was issued in fortnightly parts that reader could have bound themselves. In 1910, the first eight-volume sets were published. Each section contained a variety of articles that developed with every folio. George F Moller produced illustrations for The Children’s Encyclopaedia, including this paper model of the globe. The world rotates to show how sunlight hits the Earth to produce the effects of day and night. Areas of the British Empire are coloured pink and show to the reader that ‘the sun never sets upon the British Empire’.
17/03/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 17/03/2014
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