"[World] globes, those low-to no-tech teaching instruments of medieval origin, still hold their popularity. They've simply evolved to include additional roles as historic artifacts and objets d'art; though new ones continue their cartographic function... No true world citizen can do without one.

"Old-world Dreams
"George Glazer specializes in antique globes. He doesn't deal with them exclusively, but he'd like to. 'The more I look at globes, the more I like them, the more I see in them,' he says.

"At the George Glazer gallery in Manhattan, collectors can find spheres from the 18th through the early 20th centuries: free-standing floor models, tabletop spheres, and pocket-size and novelty globes. Currently among the latter is a black marble 1960s-era Soviet cosmonaut trophy-globe that stands 1 foot tall.