£4800 pocket globes top specialist bids
SPECIALIST items took three of the top-selling lots at this George Kidner Hampshire sale on 9 July. One was a 1731 pocket globe by Richard Cushee, a land surveyor, map and globe maker known to have been apprenticed to John Sellers Sr, a leading figure in the London map trade at the time.
Complete with its fishskin case, the globe, with celestial charts decorated with symbolic representa…