6-Inch Celestial Table Globe with Astronomy Book
Replogle Globes, Chicago: Mid 1950s

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Replogle 6-Inch Celestial Table Globe with Astronomy Book
Replogle 6-Inch Celestial Table Globe with Astronomy Book Replogle 6-Inch Celestial Table Globe with Astronomy Book Replogle 6-Inch Celestial Table Globe with Astronomy Book
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Gustave Brueckmann (cartographer)
Replogle Globes, Inc.
6-Inch Celestial Table Globe
Chicago: Mid 1950s
Tin stand with celestial astronomy book
9 inches high, 8 inches wide including stand
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An educational celestial globe showing the constellations as figures from classical mythology and scientific instruments, together with a celestial astronomy book set within the base, as issued.  The tin celestial globe is mounted on a red painted tin base within a full calibrated tin meridian, painted with blue numerals. The globe shows the constellations as figures in light blue on a dark blue ground, the stars in white and connected by straight white lines, the ecliptic indicated by a wide red dotted line.  The meridian swings forward or backward in a stand comprised of two triangular wire-form rods connected to the rectangular base, which holds the paperback astronomy guide, Stars, by Herbert S. Zim and Robert H. Baker (Simon and Schuster, New York: 1951).   The cartography is by Gustav Karl Brueckmann, who designed several globes for Replogle between about 1946 and 1959.

In the 1950s, Replogle issued a variety of tin specialty globes including a “Surprise Globe,” a terrestrial globe with black oceans that “unexpectedly” opened to reveal concave celestial maps of the northern and southern skies on the interior.  The concave celestial interior of the Surprise Globe is of similar style and coloration to this 6-inch celestial globe. Other educational tin toy specialty globes offered by Replogle at the time included a Quiz Globe and a Magnetic Air Race Globe. 

For more information about Replogle see our Guide to Globe Makers.

Cartouche: 6 INCH CELESTIAL GLOBE/ Magnitudes 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Cluster Nebula/ REPLOGLE GLOBES INC./ Copyright Made in U.S.A. Chicago/ Gustav Brueckmann, Cartographer