Jacobean Style Floor Globe
Rand McNally, c. 1924
Rand McNally, c. 1924
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Rand McNally & Co.
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The 18-inch globe with brass hour circles at north and south poles, in calibrated brass meridian turning on ball-bearing mechanism, the patented angled revolving horizon with engraved paper topographical profile and calibrations, raised on a mahogany stand in the Jacobean taste, with four quadrants supporting the horizon band above central turned and fluted baluster standard on four cruciform shaped legs ending in scrolled feet with applied brass rosettes.
The globe made up of two sets of twelve gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees in both directions, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridan and ecquinoctial colure graduated in degrees, showing Mean Isothermal Lines for January and July (with blue and red lines), the oceans with an analemma, submarine telegraph cables, ocean currents shown with white wavy lines but not indicated in key, the continents finely detailed, with nation states colored in shades of yellow, pink, faded orange (two different tones), purple. Peary expedition to North Pole 1909 indicated. Antarctic shown, Amundsen expedition 1911 indicated. Petrograd shown indicating date of 1914 to 1924. Oceans colored blue, now faded. International Date Line in red.
The unusual angled horizon band, with engraved calibrations and topographical chart (showing mountain ranges and sea troughs), was patented by Rand McNally in 1924, and used on various models of their globes from that time through the 1930s.
Rand McNally and Company became a preeminent publisher of maps and atlases in Chicago in the 1870s and 1880s, then ventured into globe making in the 1890s, and continues in business today. For more information on Rand McNally & Co., see our Guide to Globe Makers.
Globe surface generally very good with the usual toning, wear, soiling, fading, abrasions and small losses, all professionally restored. Various losses to paper on horizon band, neatly inpainted. Stand French polished, very good.
Oval Cartouche: RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY/ TERRESTRIAL/ GLOBE/ [below cartouche:] Copyright by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/ Made in U.S.A.
Explanatory Key Under Cartouche:
Submarine Telegraph Cables thus Black Mean Isothermal lines for January Blue Mean Isothermal lines for July Red
Legend on Horizon: Patented June 17, 1924
The globe made up of two sets of twelve gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees in both directions, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Greenwich meridan and ecquinoctial colure graduated in degrees, showing Mean Isothermal Lines for January and July (with blue and red lines), the oceans with an analemma, submarine telegraph cables, ocean currents shown with white wavy lines but not indicated in key, the continents finely detailed, with nation states colored in shades of yellow, pink, faded orange (two different tones), purple. Peary expedition to North Pole 1909 indicated. Antarctic shown, Amundsen expedition 1911 indicated. Petrograd shown indicating date of 1914 to 1924. Oceans colored blue, now faded. International Date Line in red.
The unusual angled horizon band, with engraved calibrations and topographical chart (showing mountain ranges and sea troughs), was patented by Rand McNally in 1924, and used on various models of their globes from that time through the 1930s.
Rand McNally and Company became a preeminent publisher of maps and atlases in Chicago in the 1870s and 1880s, then ventured into globe making in the 1890s, and continues in business today. For more information on Rand McNally & Co., see our Guide to Globe Makers.
Globe surface generally very good with the usual toning, wear, soiling, fading, abrasions and small losses, all professionally restored. Various losses to paper on horizon band, neatly inpainted. Stand French polished, very good.
Oval Cartouche: RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY/ TERRESTRIAL/ GLOBE/ [below cartouche:] Copyright by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/ Made in U.S.A.
Explanatory Key Under Cartouche:
Submarine Telegraph Cables thus Black Mean Isothermal lines for January Blue Mean Isothermal lines for July Red
Legend on Horizon: Patented June 17, 1924