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 […]
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, […]