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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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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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 […]