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UNUSUAL EXTENDED MOUNTING
  American.
Perce's Magnetic Globe Pat. Mch. 15th 1864 for Elbert Perce. Charles Scribner. New York. . Hollow papermache
5 inch orb without time dial mounted on a meridian much larger
than to conform. Oceans finished in pea green with land surfaces
in tan. With ecliptic and analemma. Adjustable brass meridian
atop turned walnut column and dished base. Unusual civil war
period American globe. Surface losses professionally restored. I.D.#10046.
FINE 13 INCH JAMES WILSON GLOBE
   Wilson, James.
A NEW AMERICAN THIRTEEN INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Exhibiting with the greatest possible accuracy, the positions of the principal known places of the earth; with the tracks of various circumnaviagators together with new discoveries and political alterations down to the present period. By Cyrus Lancaster, Albany, N.Y. [D.W. Wilson, del. Balch, Rawden & Co. sc.] CYRUS LANCASTER. ALBANY, N.Y.
c1850. Tan engraved gores over plaster on metal orb, probably copper, precision time arrow fastened to meridian at North Pole. Shows equinoctial colure, ecliptic, prevailing winds, analemma and the routes of numerous explorers. Stamped and machined brass full ring meridian in turned maple full mount four-legged table stand with stretchers. With engraved colored horizon ring scale. Shows, names and dates sailing tracks of Cook, Perouse, Vancouver, Rodriguez, Anson, Butler. Alaska called Russian America. Hawaii called Sandwich Islands or Owyhee with notes on the death of Cook in 1779 and Hergest and two others in 1792. New Holland or Australasia not yet divided into provinces. In North America, Utah shows Gt. Salt Lake or Mormon City. Huge Oregon, Indian and unnamed territory from Platte River to Canada. Texas shows cession of 1850. Pre-Gadsden Purchase and southwestern border. Apparently 1850 edition of Wilson's prized globe. Slight damage at North Pole professionally mended but an overall excellent specimen. I.D.#10052.
SOLD.
RARE NEW YORK GLOBEMAKER
 J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.
untitled. Very detailed 5" table globe. J.W. Schermerhorn & Co. 14 Bond St. New York.
c1869. Engraved hand colored gores over wood sphere, without time dial. Oceans in natural tan with ecliptic, analemma, many Pacific islands, detailed land masses with many placenames. Offset brass mount atop elegantly turned walnut column and base. Orb sets on to spindle without attachment screw. Continental United States has loss in Southwest, shows Minnesota, Ind Ter., Utah but no Yellowstone Park. Alaska is "U.S. Terr." A few small surface losses, surface browned. Attractive and rare globe I.D.#10050b.
Anonymous. German.
untitled. [child's toy globe]. c1900. 3" hollow tin orb, transfer painted with simple surfaces. Oceans finished in gray green showing ocean currents. Shows "Congo State" (1885-1908) in central Africa, "Sunda Islands" for Malay Archipelago. Raised on welded wire stand. Surface rubbing and darkening. I.D.#10063.
SOLD.
UNUSUAL OVERWORKED GLOBE
  Anonymous. untitled. Child's schroolroom individual globe, used as a project globe. Entire surface overpainted in gray blue with continents skillfully work in plaster painted brown. Underlying gores are very detailed with Phillipines shows as U.S. (c1899-1900).
c1910. Plaster continents flaking. Unusual school project that was very well done.
I.D.#10064.
GREAT WAR PERIOD FULL MOUNT RESIDENTIAL GLOBE
  W. & A.K. Johnston.
12 Inch International Globe Constructed from the latest authorities. Warrented absolutely accurate. [title on label] ... Copyright by W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd. W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
c1915. 12 inch plaster orb with coated very detailed steel engraved gores, Oceans in olive green with time dial at North Pole. Ocean currents and isothermal lines
emphasized but with equator, ecliptic and large analemma and undersea cables. International Date Line in red. Full ring cast iron meridian mounted in a conforming cradle raised on a bronze three leg table stand with paw feet and raised floral motifs. Cradle supports a laminated wood horizon ring with colored meridian table with months, zodiac signs, time degree scale. Mountain ranges shown with minute hachures.
Petrograd shown in Russia but not yet Czechoslovakia. Huge
Austro-Hungarian Empire. Some surface soiling, discoloring and
small blemishes, horizon ring scale chipped with some losses but
an ideal World War I period globe.
I.D.#10060.
CHILD'S SCHOOL GLOBE
Rand, McNally & Co.
Rand, McNally New Six Inch Terrestrial globe. Pat Aug. 3, 1909 Copyrighted. Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago. 1919. Colored gores on coated stock over pasteboard without time dial or meridian. Oceans finished pea green, analemma scale in Pacific. Attractive title graphics. On bent wire stand fashioned to correct inclination. Detailed map surface, orb may have been available on other mounts. Post Versailles Treaty Europe with Polish Corridor and Czechoslovakia, German colonies gone from Africa, Russia is shown during the Kerensky Provisional Government period with St. Petersburg still called "Petrograd" rather than Leningrad, Baltic states still independent. Afghanistan is called "Balochistan", Indo China called "Annam". Mongolia and Manchuria are a part of "China" which was the Chinese Republic. Losses to equator scale with separating. Individual children's schoolroom globes such as this are fragile. I.D.#10044.
American. untitled. Child's globe.
"Made in U.S.A."
Transfer painted over tin. Simplified surface. Shows Leningrad
in Russia. n.p. c1926. 5" diam. orb. Oceans finished in dark olive Raised from a stepped metal base by wire rod and ferule. No time dial or meridian. Good general depiction of the continents. Text in English as intended for export. Some rubbing and surface ripples. I.D.#10058.
LIGHTED 16 INCH ORB ABOUT 1931
Rand, McNally & Co.
Rand McNally Indexed Terrestrial globe. Diameter 16 inches. Distances in statute miles. One inch equals 500 miles. Great Circle measuring scale along 30 W. Longitude. Rand McNally & Co. Chicago.
©1931. Coated paper gores over heavy glass, time dial at North Pole. Oceans colored pale green, with International Date Line and some nautical distances. Mounted on a walnut Phyfe style full mount stand with incurvate legs and brass sabots dating from the early 1930's. An attractive home orb surface with small sailing ship details, and cartouche of shell with
Neptune and mermaid. Internally lighted, later wiring. Couple
slight surface blemishes. I.D.#10066.
German.
Anonymous. untitled. [miniature souvenir paperweight globe]
Transfer painted 1.75" orb German 'kitsch" globe showing the
pre-1918 world, mounted later on a cast aluminum body by the
National Die Casting Co., Chicago, as a souvenir to sell at the
1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair. Base of black bakelite without
the twist feature revealing views of buildings at the fair.
Chicago. c1932. Nice condition. I.D.#10062. SOLD.
UNUSUAL MEMORIAL LAMP
American. untitled [cast earth globe with sculptured likenesses of Will Rogers and Wiley Post]
Cast white metal sculpture, bronzed, on octagonal base being an earth globe with a replica of Post's airplane W.P. X-12-0 at top with the likenesses of Wiley Post and Will Rogers below. Named on banderole below. "No.234" on base. American.
c1935. Both had been killed in a plane crash that year. I.D.#10045.
UNUSUAL 14 INCH SIZE
Weber Costello Co. New Peerless 14 inch globe Terrestrial globe... Natural scale = 1:35,670,000 560 miles to one inch... Weber Costello Co. Chicago Heights, IL. 1937. Coated paper gores over pasteboard, time dial at North Pole. Oceans finished in light blue with ecliptic, Equinoctial Colure, International Date Line, aerial flights in red, nautical routes in blue, ocean currents and analemma. Offset bracket mounted on round gray crackle-finished base. Shows China Clipper routes inaugurated Nov. 22, 1935, Lindbergh Graf Zeppelin flights, Hindenburg route May 6-9, 1936. A few major short wave stations in red. Shows Manchukuo but no nazi expansion in Europe. Surface dust soiled with small abrasions, crack repaired in China, southeast Asia region and at equator. I.D.#10051.
FINE CONDITION EARLY CRAM SILVER OCEAN GLOBE
Cram, George F.
Co. Cram's Unrivaled Terrestrial globe -12 inch- Natural scale 1 = 41,420,882 One inch = 653 statute miles. 68.12 mi. length of a degree of longitude, shown at each 10 degrees of latitude on meridian 30 w. Spellings conform to official rulings on the United States Geographic Board and Royal Geographical Society. No.4... George F. Cram Co. Indianapolis.
c1937. Private residence globe with coated paper gores over pasteboard dressed in plaster, oceans finished in silver. Shows nautical distances, Equinoctial Colure, Eliptic, Meridian of Greenwich (Prime Meridian) and analemma scale in Pacific. Time dial at North Pole. Cast bronze half meridian accented with gilt on a turned wood dish form base. Shows Manchoukuo so spelled and in Africa, Ethiopia (Abyssinia) is now Italian East Africa. In Europe no
Nazi expansions. No map surface lacking in Antarctica, exceptionally bright and fine. I.D.#10059.
SOLD.
ONE OF THE MOST
EXTRAORDINARY STANDS EVER PRODUCED
BY A 20TH CENTURY
AMERICAN GLOBE MAKER
Cram, George F.
Co. Inc. Cram's 10.5 inch Terrestrial globe. Natural scale 1 = 47,800,000. One inch = 755 Statute Miles. 68.12 mi. length of a degree of longitude, shown at each 10 degrees of latitude on meridian 30 w. Spellings conform to official rulings of United States Geographic Board and Royal Geographical Society. No. 105 H M. George F. Cram Co., Inc. Indianapolis.
c1938. Coated paper gores over glass, lighted from within with pull-chain switch. Time dial at North Pole, oceans in tan, analemma scale in Pacific. Shows ocean currents and ship routes. Solid walnut wood table base with cast gilt bronze sea monster swimming, its tail serving as half meridian ferule. Airline routes and distances shown in red, International Date Line, tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, ecliptic and analemma shown in Pacific. Ethiopia is Italian East Africa, Vietnam is French Indochina. The mounting is a solid bronze artwork on a choice desk globe from the Nazi period. A couple small surface blemishes. I.D.#10047.
 Replogle Globes, Inc.
Replogle 12 Inch Precision Globe. Legend... Designed and edited by Gustav Brueckmann, cartographer. Replogle Globes, Inc. Chicago.
c1947. Dull paper gores over pasteboard. Metal time dial at North Pole. Stamped gilt plated fixed meridian, raised on browned stamped metal atlas base. Pre Korean War. Shows Israel but not Pakistan.
I.D.#10048.
Replogle Globes, Inc.
Replogle 12 inch Reference globe. Legend... Designed and edited by Gustav Brueckmann, cartographer. Replogle Globes, Inc. Chicago.
c1949. Dull coated gores over pasteboard, time dial at North Pole. Oceans colored blue-green analemma in Pacific. Fixed cast metal meridian raised on a grained finished metal base with slot into which an atlas was once stored. Immediate pre-Korean War boundaries, southeast Asia with "French" omitted from Indo-China, Thailand not mentioning Siam. Post World War 2 European boundaries. Surface slightly sun checked. I.D.#10055.
Cram, The George F. Company.
Cram's Universal Terrestrial globe. -12 inch -
Natural scale 1= 41,420,882. One Inch = 653 Statute Miles. 68.12
mi. Length of a degree of longitude, show at each 10 degrees of
latitude on meridian 30 w. Spellings conform to official rulings
of United States Geographic Board and Royal Geographical
Society. No.3 The George F. Cram Company. Indianapolis, Indiana.
c1950. Shiny coated gores over pasteboard, time dial at North Pole. Oceans tinted blue, no analemma scale in Pacific. Ocean currents shown and sea lane distances. With gilt half meridian scale, mounted to round pressed metal base with blue accent lining. Shows a unified Korea, Indochina so spelled without hyphen and not designated as French, Thailand (Siam) in bold capitals and with Siam in brackets. Shows Mongolian People's Republic in dark green. Very nice bright condition. I.D.#10053.
SOLD.
LIGHTED FLOOR MODEL
 Replogle Globes Inc.
Replogle 16 inch Library globe. Replogle Globes, Inc.
Chicago. 1959.Coated paper gores over plastic, lighted from within. Time dial at North Pole. Oceans colored pale green. With International Date Line and some nautical distances. Chromed full ring meridian and cradle. Egypt and Syria joined together into United Arab Republic (1958-1961). Light burn spot near North Pole. On Duncan Phyfe
style walnut floor stand with metal sabots. Handsome globe
ensemble. I.D.#10056.
The Ohio Art Co.
untitled. [logo: World famous for quality] The Ohio Art Co.
Bryan, Ohio, U.S.A. c1965. Model D-174. Heavy duty 10" transfer painted steel globe. Movable azimuth and declination on steel frame rising from an attached browned steel base. Crimped at equator. All major sea and airline routes. Only Egypt still termed United Arab
Republic. Few surface dents but clean condition. I.D.#10049.
Rand, McNally &
Company. Rand, McNally World Portrait Globe. Rand,
McNally & Company. Chicago. c1970. Coated embossed relief
photolithographic gores over pasteboard. Time dial at North
Pole. 12" diameter. Fixed metal half meridian on round flat gold
tone base. Detailed surface. Vietnam War era with the country
divided. Ocean floor and earth surface topographic features,
some embossed. Gives International Date Line, tropics of Cancer
and Capricorn, Pacific drifts and currents. Border through
Kashmir dotted in red but lacks note in red found on later
issues saying: "The boundary between India and Pakistan through
the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir follows the 'line of
control' agreed to by both countries in 1972." Vietnam War era
home globe. I.D.#10057. SOLD.
Hong Kong. untitled. [miniature globe on stand]
Tiny bronze embossed orb, 1.5" diam., within conforming half meridian raised on three-legged tripod stand. Bronzed white metal. Labeled on one side of meridian. Dur-Am Ind. Inc.. Hong Kong. 1976 (actually dated). Premium made for Durham Industries, New York. Really cute. Much toned and darkened, looks much older than it actually is. Stand easily broken, scarce survival. I.D.#10061.
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