{"id":5,"date":"2006-12-01T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2006\/12\/01\/watching_a_jame\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T01:41:23","slug":"watching_a_jame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2006\/12\/01\/watching_a_jame\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching a James Wilson &amp; Sons New American Celestial Globe go on eBay&#8230; for $3,707!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"images\/jameswilson1834.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/jameswilson1834.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Recently\u00a0 watched what appeared to be a fascinating globe go to auction on eBay.\u00a0 It was a &#8220;James Wilson &amp; Sons New American Celestial Globe&#8221; that was apparently from 1834. The seller included this in the description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>James Wilson was America&#8217;s first<br \/>\ncommercial globe maker. He was born in New Hampshire in 1763 and spent much of<br \/>\nhis adult life as a farmer and blacksmith in nearby Vermont. However, after<br \/>\nseeing a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes at Dartmouth College, he<br \/>\ndecided to make his own. He began by learning geography from an encyclopedia was<br \/>\ninstructed on engraving from an experienced engraver of maps. Around 1810 he had<br \/>\ncreated his first globe, and by 1818 he and his sons had established an<br \/>\n&#8220;artificial globe manufactory&#8221; in Albany, New York, where they produced globes<br \/>\nof three-inch, nine-inch, and thirteen-inch diameters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t determined the accuracy of that description, but given my home now in Vermont and history in New Hampshire, this globe would have a certain sentimental as well as historical value.\u00a0 It would be quite fascinating to see the world as depicted by an American in 1834!<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this particular auction was a wee bit too rich for me&#8230; the winner paid $3,707 USD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0 watched what appeared to be a fascinating globe go to auction on eBay.\u00a0 It was a &#8220;James Wilson &amp; Sons New American Celestial Globe&#8221; that was apparently from 1834. The seller included this in the description: James Wilson was America&#8217;s first commercial globe maker. He was born in New Hampshire in 1763 and spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","category-globes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}