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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)
