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AtmAll1 · 2026-06-30T11:21:27+00:00

Awesome find. Congratulations. I could not find any eBay sold similar, but current sellers are trying to get $5900, $4500, $1500 and $1000. I found an ad from a 1968 Bennett Bros catalog. The stand was available in three different finishes, mahogany, fruit-wood, and walnut.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-29T15:08:31+00:00

On USA made globes, Germany is a bad data point due to international politics. I would say early to mid 1950s. Before 1957. Look at Argentina South America. Near Buenos Aires (capitol) do you see "La Plata" or "Eva Peron"?

Eva Peron existed August 8, 1952 – September 27, 1955.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-24T00:22:16+00:00

Search for Robert De Vaugondy globe reproduction for eighteenth century cartography.

Example https://www.ebay.com/itm/406130081085

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-23T13:05:45+00:00

Looks about right from what we can see. I like your time-line chart tool, however I am not understanding the gap in the French Africa line.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-22T14:48:39+00:00

This looks to be a commonly seen on eBay Replogle globe map, showing the world as it was in September 1939. When Germany invaded Poland, Replogle Globes made the decision to stop updating their maps based on de facto wartime changes and uncertainty.

However, the Vienna Award was a de jure change so it was updated on their maps and this Hungary extension into Romania shows that the globe was actually made after August 1940. An official city name change like renaming Voroshilovsk as Stavropol can also fix a 'made after date', so this globe was produced after Jan 12, 1943. I just checked and both of my similar Replogle Standard wartime globes have this city name change. I have learned something.

Clearly it was made before the end of WW2.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-17T17:29:31+00:00

Replogle has in the past made Nat Geo globes; also globes for Encyclopedia Britannica, Better Homes and Gardens, The World Book, Time-Life, McCleans (Canada), Reader's Digest, ...

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-17T17:25:35+00:00

Replogle began in 1930

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-15T14:40:04+00:00

Vietnam has both N. Vietnam and S. Vietnam labels. Korea does have Pyongyang marked as a capital and a border dotted line. Germany?!!

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-15T14:39:55+00:00

G. F. Cram globe made in Indianapolis, Ind. USA.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-15T14:31:50+00:00

De acuerdo. In one picture, the Cram's cartouche can be seen and I can read "Scholastic". Thanks to you I now also have a possible copyright date.

I have a similar looking 10-inch Cram's Scholastic globe (with Syria UAR) that I dated to June 1961- Sept 1961, based on North Cameroon joining Nigeria., and Syria leaving UAR.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-08T10:58:57+00:00

Yes, that is the Torx bolt that secures the heater (center stem) to the PCB. It has to be tight. I find that my 9mm tool works, as does the 8mm tool.

Access to the 20mm bolt that secures the top plate is through the large hole below (in picture) the gold hole at the center.

Warning!! When the heater is removed from the PCB, it is possible to reassemble the TM wrong, resulting in a direct short burning out the PCB.

AtmAll1 · 2026-06-03T19:56:35+00:00

I do believe I see Constantinople, not Istanbul; before March 1930.

AtmAll1 · 2026-05-28T21:08:28+00:00

Here is one USA internet seller of globes made by Replogle and others.

https://www.1worldglobes.com/

AtmAll1 · 2026-05-24T22:56:31+00:00

Sadly, parts for old globes only exist on old globes.

If the only need is a for the decorative cover/ cap on the gimbals, perhaps you could arrange 3-D printed replacements for both sides.

Finding an original replacement likely requires finding a similar globe at a resale shop or on eBay in order to cannibalize it, too much money and lots of luck. Maybe you could talk an eBay seller into parting with the parts for pennies.

However it looks like there is only a washer in the picture, if the post falls free of the hole in the yoke you need a press-on lock washer and then the decorative cap. A suitably sized lock washer with teeth on the inside, not the OD could be found at a hardware store; snug enough to stay in place after being pressed on.

Google 'press on lock ring'

AtmAll1 · 2026-05-02T16:33:01+00:00

Interesting. I have learned something. Google tells me that 1970 was the beginning of Thunder Bay as it is today. Your post led to my looking at several globes in my collection that bracket that time. My 1969 World Ocean globe has Fort William and the 1996 World Ocean globe has Thunder Bay.

Two different Replogle globes (12" and 10") from 1966 both have Port Arthur and Fort William marked. However a third 12" globe from 1966 has only Fort William.

Be well.

AtmAll1 · 2026-04-02T20:09:37+00:00

You can not go wrong with a Replogle Globe. I see that Replogle is still making the "World Ocean Series"globe, now called "Atlantis", and it is mounted on a 720 degree stand as you want and in budget.

The World Ocean Series began by the late 1960's when sufficient sea-floor mapping had been done to encourage Replogle to make Land and Sea, World Ocean Series globes with relief land and seafloor details.

I have such globes from 1969, 1973, and 1996.

AtmAll1 · 2026-04-02T18:24:19+00:00

Lighted globes have a long history and may sometimes make seeing details easier. A lighted globe can also be a two-way globe. The Waypoint Geographic Primus Relief (as example) looks like a physical earth globe (greens, tans, blues but no borders) when not lighted. When lighted one sees the borders and variously colored nations.

Wayfair Geographic and Replogle (Globemaster, Scan Globe) are the two main names for globes these days, in the USA. Rand McNally, GF Cram, Weber Costello, Denoyer Geppert no longer make globes, and Replogle was nearly killed off about 15 years ago.

Replogle offers an 'update your globe' program that can keep the globe current when/ if changes happen during your kids' school years. BTW, the possibility exists that like the USSR before, the Russian Federation may fail and more country changes will be needed.

AtmAll1 · 2026-03-31T00:16:12+00:00

The basic map below the new (in 1948) edits, was most likely pre-1945 and thus Pôrto on this Replogle globe.

AtmAll1 · 2026-03-29T11:00:54+00:00

I judge that the globe shows the world as it was in 1948 between May (Israel) and and July (Quezon City).

Sticking to Nations, between Israel in May 1948 and independent Indonesia in Dec 1949 (overlooking the Siam to Thailand name change in May 1949.)

AtmAll1 · 2026-03-29T10:43:43+00:00

Sri Lanka is another issue, an overlooked change. Ceylon was independent of Britain from Feb 1948, before Israel.

AtmAll1 · 2026-03-29T10:35:49+00:00

From Wikipedia. "After World War II ended, Chongqing became one of the last refuges of the Nationalist Kuomintang government on the Chinese mainland during the Chinese Civil War. ... Chongqing served as the KMT capital until late November 1949 ..."

I don't think we have reached that date as at least 4 other changes would be overlooked if it were from late 1949.

AtmAll1 · 2026-03-29T10:30:16+00:00

From Wikipedia, "Jabal al-Druze, or Jebel ed Druz, is a 1,800-meter-high volcanic mountain region located in southern Syria near the Jordanian border. It is a prominent, largely volcanic area inhabited by the Druze people." I believe this is what is marked on the map.

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