1940s Globes

Political globe tabletop with airplane-shaped base, published in 1949 by Weber Costello Co. Chicago Heights Illinois. Papier-mâché sphere with black oceans and seas, in addition to ...

16 inch diameter telescoping adjustable world globe by Rand McNally, Chicago, wonderful color and proportion, adjustable from 52 inches to 76 inches, Minor water damage, fading,, Ret...

1940s Masonic wardens column by Spencer & Company London.

Table top globe from the Art Deco period in France. This piece features an ebonized and French polish base base.

Political globe tabletop with airplane-shaped base, published in 1949 by Weber Costello Co. Chicago Heights Illinois. Papier-mâché sphere with black oceans and seas, in addition to ...

A substantial 14 inch gesso terrestrial globe by Philips of London on brass inclined plain mount attached to original turned wooden based upright with axes secured at the top by a br...

A wonderful set of Terrestrial and Celestial 12 inch globes by George Philip and Son. Presented on brass inclined plain mounts attached to original turned ebonized wooden bases and uprights with axes secured at the top by brass acorn finials. Unusually, the terrestrial globe has a copyright date shown under the cartouche, 1946. The celestial globe is printed in beige against a dark blue background and shows the constellations and many named stars. Solid lines connect the stars within constellations rather than illustrating them as mythological and other figures.? A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. When looking at the stars from Earth the viewpoint is effectively inside a celestial sphere. The surface of a celestial globe shows the star field as a projection viewed from the outside and is therefore reversed, with the constellations appearing as their mirror images. The terrestrial globe is printed in several colours and comprises of twelve coated lithographic paper gores with polar calottes over a twelve inch card sphere. The age of the globe has been confirmed by the political borders and named cities displayed. The globe is nicely detailed and has a grid network of parallels and meridians. It shows all the continents and countries as they were at the time it was printed and also indicates all the principal steamship routes with distances in nautical miles. The globe also has a printed Analemma - a diagram showing the declination of the Sun for every day in the year and the equation of time. The Analemma therefore shows the position of the Sun in the sky as seen from a fixed location on Earth at the same mean solar time, as the sun's position varies over the course of a year. A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. Dimensions of each globe: 30.5 cm/12 inches (diameter) x 59 cm/23 1/4 inches (max height). George Philip, (1800–1882) was a cartographer and map publisher. He founded George Philip & Sons in 1834 in Liverpool primarily as a bookseller and stationer, but rapidly expanding to become a publisher of primarily maps, atlases and educational works. He had one son, also George (1823–1902), who was admitted to the business in 1848. George senior was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and by 1819 he had become assistant to the Liverpool bookseller, William Grapel before going on to start his own business. He used cartographers (such as John Bartholomew the elder, August Petermann, and William Hughes) to produce maps on copper plates. Philip then had these printed and hand-coloured by his women tinters. The business expanded rapidly and by the time he produced his county maps of 1862 he was using machine...

12" Illuminated glass library globe by Replogle (Chicago, IL, ca. 1944). Israel is not present, Manchutikuo is present, the capital of French Indo-China...

American Art Deco (Pre-WWII) globe of the world with an internal light resting in walnut wood stand (made by Replogle Globes, INC, Chicago, IL). Gla...

Handsome Scholarly world globe with a Regency style mahogany base. The globe is 16 inches in diameter, circa 1940, Chicago. Perfect addition to a library or study.

German globe Columbus Erdglobus by the cartographers C. Luther and R. Neuse, made in the 1940s. In addition to the territorial map, the ocean currents and the main trade routes of th...

JRO globus light up desk globe, circa 1940s - Glass globe - Adjustable brass arm - On/off switch on the cord - Takes 1X E14 bulb - German, late 1940s...