Description: WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER THIS RARE ANTIQUE REPLOGLE GLASS ILLUMINATED GLASS REFERENCE GLOBE MEASURING 16 1/2”H X 12”CIRCULAR ROUND GLOBE & 6” X 9”SQUARE STAND. PULL CHAIN SWITCH STILL WORKS AFTER MORE THAN 75 YEARS. The name Replogle has been synonymous with globes since the company’s founding in 1930. The company is named after founder Luther I. Replogle, a onetime school supplies salesman that saw a need for globes in every home. Luther and his wife Elizabeth Replogle, known as “Rep” and “Bets”, started the company in their apartment and an adjacent basement with $500 borrowed from friends. After a rocky start during the dawn of the Great Depression, the new company’s first big break came when the eminent Chicago retailer, Marshall Field and Company (Now part of Macy’s) selected Replogle to produce a globe for the Chicago Century of Progress World’s Fair in 1933. After a lull in business prior to the U.S. entry into WWII (1938 through 1941), the new company kept growing to meet the need for globes. Later as the nation fought, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked families to have a map or globe handy during his radio addresses to the nation. The changes in borders as a result of the war and the economic boom times after WWII kept the demand for globes growing well into the 1970s. NO DAMAGE TO THIS HISTORIC GLASS CIRCULAR 12” ROUND GLOBE. THERE ARE SOME SMALL GAP OPENING OVER THE PERFECTLY ROUND GLOBE. ORIGINAL TO THE FAMILY THAT PURCHASED IT WITH THE ORIGINAL DIRECTIONS MANUAL.
Price: 435 USD
Location: Detroit, Michigan
End Time: 2025-01-26T21:01:40.000Z
Shipping Cost: 37.5 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Date Range: 1940-1949
Year: 1930
Color: Multi-Color
Cartographer/Publisher: Replogle
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Features: Illuminated
Diameter (Inches): 12in.
