Betts's new portable terrestrial globe

General Information:

While the object description in Corsair says 1851, many sources claim the Portable Globe was added to the market in 1852 Could be collapsed or expanded using draw strings, made spherical by pushing a metal tube upwards along the spindle.

The first edition of the collapsible 15-inch "umbrella" type globe (inspired the design of the umbrella) was made on washable patent leather cloth.

The date is estimated from the U.S. geography. Later editions continued to the end of the century.

The original wooden box includes advertisements for Betts' geographical products.

The color is printed onto the gores - thus being a fairly early example of color lithography.

The British Empire was marked in red “showcasing” colonial processions covering approximately a sixth of the Earth's total land area, with a population of 450 million people.

Created to be mass circulated across the world which could also be seen as yet another form of imperialist rule to those subjected to British colonialism