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Code 8347
EUR 1000.00
In stock
1764951564Code 8347 Terrestrial GlobeTerrestrial globe published in the 1930s by Weber Costello, with an attractive plaster base featuring a relief-printed compass rose, complete with a bronze meridian circle.
The papier-mâché sphere is lithographed; in addition to the territorial map, it also shows the ocean currents and major trade routes of the time. As indicated in the legend, capitals and cities, railways, steamship lines, canals, and mountain peaks are included.
It is in good condition, with normal signs of use and some losses along the equator; legibility remains very good.
Dimensions: 24 x 34 cm – 9.5 x 13.4 in.
The globe also features a large figure-eight analemma, positioned in the Pacific, which shows the solar declination and the equation of time throughout the year: a characteristic feature of pre-war educational globes, when astronomy applied to navigation still played a key role in schools.
C. F. Weber & Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews & Co. in 1896. The company became Weber Costello Frick Co. in 1902 and Weber Costello in 1909. By the 1920s, the company boasted that it had some of the largest and best-equipped factories in the world, building on 40 years of globe manufacturing experience. Between the wars, Weber Costello became a leading supplier of school globes in the United States, working with both cartographers and publishers throughout Europe. International fame came during World War II, when the company produced a pair of 50-inch (127 cm) diameter globes, sending one to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the other to Winston Churchill in London so they could coordinate their strategic plans by looking at the same globe. Production of Weber Costello globes continued until the 1960s; After that period, the company ceased its activity in the globe sector.
The first globes date back to the early 16th century. Born from the impetus of great geographical explorations, they were immediately used for educational purposes in princely courts, monasteries, and colleges. In the 18th century, thanks to the work of Louis XIV's official geographer, both the celestial globe—which represents the concave surface of the sky with its constellations—and the terrestrial globe, which shows the Earth's surface with seas, islands, rivers, and cities, became widespread.
The production techniques involved creating two papier-mâché hemispheres, pressed and shaped on or inside a hemispherical mold, left to dry, and internally reinforced with a wooden board. The hemispheres were then glued together and covered with a thin layer of plaster, on which the globe's time zones were applied: areas between two meridians, usually twelve, each covering 30 degrees of longitude. The time zones were made of paper printed by engraving on a copper plate, then colored.
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