Vintage Trippensee Planetarium Orrery Dated 1959 Bakelite Arm

A geared tellurian by Trippensee, with a terrestrial globe rotating at the end of a maroon colored dense plastic 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, printed in black on gold. An iron weight on the underside of the base is stamped “1960.” 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, manufactured for Trippensee by the George F. Cram Company, 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. See pics for details.