Weber Costello Co.
8-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Chicago Heights, Illinois: c. 1930s
14.25 inches high
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8-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Weber Costello Co., c. 1930s
Weber Costello Co., c. 1930s
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An attractive medium-sized table globe, on traditional cast iron cabriole leg stand, appropriate for desk or shelf display.
The terrestrial globe is surmounted by a round brass finial and tin hour circle, canted at an angle on a copper-finished tripod iron stand with raised foliate decoration and cabochons between the cabriole legs, ending in paw feet. Oceans colored green, faded from a bluer tone. The geographic entities are in cream, earth tones and green. Isothermals lines are rendered in red (faded) and blue, warm ocean currents in white and cold currents in blue. There is a figure-eight analemma.
A similar globe is shown in the globe archives on our site. That globe is the same in most respects with the major difference being that it omits the isothermal lines. It probably was produced slightly later, following a general trend in globes at the time, in which isothermal lines were eliminated to simplify the design.
Read more about Weber Costello in our Guide to Globe Makers.
Circular cartouche: 8 INCH GLOBE/ MADE BY/ WEBER/ COSTELLO CO./ CHICAGO HEIGHTS/ ILLINOIS
Weber-Costello diamond cipher, above cartouche: TIME TESTED/ W.C./ SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Additional legend: COPYRIGHT G.W. BACON & CO. LTD LONDON/ Printed in England.