Antique Trippensee Tellurian Planetarium

Description

This is an excellent example of the Trippensee Tellurian, a model that demonstrates the rotation of the moon around the earth and the rotations of the earth and venus around the sun, as well as the phases of the moon and venus.
This is an antique item and as with any antique mechanical item with clockwork motion it is not perfect and will need to be recalibrated. With right servicing it will work as it should again. All gears are in great shape, it is clean and has all original parts. The brass sun came off and has three dents in it which can be hammered out and the sun can be re-attached. It is not repainted. The faults are shown in the photos such as a crack in the brass base, paint is missing from wooden venus and the wooden moon and there is a tear and missing paper from earth as shown. On earth is the Trippensee label as shown in photo. There is the small compass on the arm and the metal piece at the bottom of the arm for turning the arm. It is on a turned wood stand. The brass base is printed with the seasons, signs of the zodiac and the month and all that type is in great shape.