Recently watched what appeared to be a fascinating globe go to auction on eBay. It was a “James Wilson & Sons New American Celestial Globe” that was apparently from 1834. The seller included this in the description: James Wilson was America’s first commercial globe maker. He was born in New Hampshire in 1763 and spent […]
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Old Maps of New England…
It is not globes, per se, but the Burlington Free Press recently ran an article about a gent name David Allen who has a site called Old Maps. He is basically going around digitizing old maps with the intent of preserving them. He puts them on CD and makes them available for sale. He recently […]
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Tracking John Glenn’s orbit…
The other night my wife was painting a wall and had to take the globes off the top of the hutch to move the hutch. As I sat at the table amusing our daughter with one of the globes, I did a bit of a double-take…. and then found myself quite amused. The globe in […]
Last night I went on e-bay for the first time in a few weeks and saw a very nice Weber-Costello globe up for sale. The price was right (i.e. low) and the globe has to be from the 50s or earlier, given that Weber-Costello stopped making globes in that timeframe. In the pictures on e-bay […]
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Resources for dating globes
Whenever you look at a globe, you always face the immediate problem of not being able to simply determine the age of the globe. For whatever reason, globe manufacturers usually do not put dates on their globes. Very occasionally, you might find one with a date near the legend or manufacturer logo, but it is […]
As part of my continued exploration of TypePad, I wouldn’t mind experimenting with multiple authors participating in a weblog, so if you are a collector of globes and would be interested in contributing posts here, feel free to contact me at "dyork at Lodestar2 dot com" and I can set you up to post.
Also at Delorme’s headquarters, I picked up a Replogle "Geographer" globe primarily on the basis that it looked very cool and different from all the other globes I have. It was also nice to see that it was actually from Scanglobe, even though that is now simply another brand under Replogle. You could tell, though, […]
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When a globe is not quite a globe…
This past weekend we took a bit of a break to go visit Freeport, Maine, (and if you don’t know why we were in Freeport, there’s really only one reason (google for it)) and on the way home stopped off at Delorme’s headquarters just a tiny bit south in Yarmouth, ME. It’s always amazing to […]
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Watching a globe go for $616 on eBay…
I was scanning eBay for the first time in a while and looking at all the auctions underway when one caught my eye. It was for a 8" world globe by Terrestrial Globe, John Wanamaker, New York, Philadelphia, copyright G. W. Bacon & Co., London. Judging by the information provided by the seller, the globe […]
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Welcome to “This Old Globe”
As I was preparing to post an entry to my primary weblog about some recent globe purchases, I realized that: a) these postings had really nothing to do with the other stuff I talk about; and b) it might be a nice excuse to try out TypePad and the new ecto offline client I’d like […]