{"id":1805714,"date":"2021-12-21T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805714"},"modified":"2021-12-21T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:09:52","slug":"16th-century-globe-sells-for-116000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/16th-century-globe-sells-for-116000-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"16th-Century Globe Sells for \u00a3116,000 at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>A 16th-century globe bought for \u00a3150 at a Welsh antiques fair has sold at auction for \u00a3116,000<\/a>. It had been expected to fetch \u00a320-30,000. The globe, which dates to the 1550s or 1560s and believed to be by, or derived from work by, Fran\u00e7ois Demongenet, includes sea monsters but not Australia (not yet discovered by Europeans) and is made of paper gores, which makes it both rare and fragile. More from the auction house here<\/a>. Auction listing<\/a>. BBC News coverage<\/a>. (Image: Hansons Auctioneers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 16th-century globe bought for \u00a3150 at a Welsh antiques fair has sold at auction for \u00a3116,000. It had been expected to fetch \u00a320-30,000. The globe, which dates to the 1550s or 1560s and believed… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,367,26],"class_list":["post-1805714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1500s","tag-auctions","tag-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":171360,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/waldseemuller-auction-cancelled-after-experts-suspect-fakery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805714,"position":0},"title":"Waldseem\u00fcller Auction Cancelled After Experts Suspect Fakery","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"This is a bombshell. 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