Lot 31
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REPLOGLE, Chicago

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REPLOGLE, Chicago
REPLOGLE 12 INCH STARLIGHT GLOBE Copyright by REPLOGLE GLOBES, Inc. Chicago, Ill. MADE IN U.S.A. Designed and edited by Gustav Bruekmann, Cartographer [c.1950]
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of two sets of twelve colour lithographed gores, the equator graduated in degrees, the oceans coloured black and showing steamship routes with distances in nautical miles, banks, reefs and shoals, the continents strongly coloured in a variety of shades, finely detailed with features such as railways, canals, swamps, mountain passes and similar, with cities labelled according to population, mountains with height in feet (crack to the equator), a simple aluminium model of an aeroplane with rotating propellor fixed to the finial, the aluminium meridian half circle stamped on one side and divided in two quadrants, on a circular plinth base -- 18in.(45.7cm.) high

See Colour Illustration and Detail (trade label)
Literature
DEKKER, Elly and KROGT, Peter van der, Globes From The Western World (London, 1993)

Lot Essay

The labelling on this globe of the state of Israel and of the Belgian Congo date it to between Israel's creation in 1948, and around 1960 when the Congo gained its independence.
The Replogle Globe Inc. firm was set up in 1931 by Luther I. Replogle.

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