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THE "DIPLOMAT" GLOBE: LATE COLD WAR w/ TOUCH-LIGHT
Brueckmann, Gustav/LeRoy M.
Tolman. Replogle 32 inch Library Globe (also called "The
Diplomat Globe"). Replogle Globes, Inc. Chicago, Illinois.
c1977. Lithographed gores over plexiglas orb. Lighted
electrically from within with touch-surface switch. Time dial at
North Pole. Full ring thick brass engraved meridian. In massive
four pillar cherry stand with decoratively carved legs and central
pivot on cross stretchers holding the globe's meridian ring on
rollers for ease of movement. Definitive detail of political
boundaries, railroads, highways, canals, steamship routes, as well
as physical features: waterfalls, dams, swamps, lakes, glaciers,
shelf ice, banks, reefs, cays, mountain peaks, passes, deserts,
ocean currents, plus "ruins" and "places of interest". The
largest globe commercially produced in the U.S. Examples have
been in use in the White House and other top executive locations.
Revisions by LeRoy M. Tolman. With the Soviet Union still intact,
this is the definitive globe for the Cold War period. Although the
gores are not dated, there is a reading in Antarctica stating that
the Russians recorded the lowest Fahrenheit temperature, 126.8 Deg
below zero in 1980. Other notes include one stating that Pinyin
translations were used for most Chinese names in English. Has
reading "Irian Jaya" at the west end of New Guinea. Vietnam War
over with Ho Chi Minh City instead of Saigon. Enormous orb is 32
inches in diameter or nearly 100 inches in circumference.
Including stand the height is four feet. The stand is 30 inches
high by 41 inches wide at the bottom. Therefore, the orb can be
lifted out of the stand and the widest area is 32 inches for
fitting through doorways. Fine bright condition overall.
I.D.#10394.
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