A Fine Weber Costello Isothermal
Globe with Hammond's Over-label. c1926
Hammond was one of the few
US Globe makers of the early 20th Century not located
in Chicago. Instead the company stayed on the East Coast
and manufactured its models in Boston, New York and
Brooklyn. However, Hammond did not produce all of the
maps for its Globes, but imported some from W. &
A.K. Johnston of England. Very rarely Hammond's also
outsourced to one of the great Chicago Globe makers
of the 20th Century, Weber Costello. This sphere is
one of these rare models.
How do we know? Gores made
by Hammonds have a printed ,oval cartouche; maps outsourced
offer an overlay cartouche instead. This Globe has an
overlay cartouche and Costello collectors will be familiar
with the diamond shaped logo of Weber Costello just
above the circular cartouche .
This globe is very appealing
for its political borders as well its visual beauty
as it offers the History of an era long gone and the
beauty of the Art Nouveau movement in its detailed design
of bronze and electro-copper plated lions paw mounting.
It is important to note the
stunning well preserved colors of the mapping. Sadly,
most Weber Costello globes from this era are notorious
for the fading of the red pigmented inks from exposure
to light – in most of them the fading is complete
with no red remaining whatsoever. Not this one. Clearly
visible are both the blue and red isothermal
lines in addition to the still visible, subtle pinks,
oranges and purples in the mapping. Weber Costello aficionados
will quickly recognize the significance of this globe's
preservation and know this globe has spent a great deal
of it's life in proper storage unexposed to the elements.
12 Printed gores hand applied
to a plaster dressed orb. The sphere is mounted on an
electro-copper plated tripod lion's foot base. Approx
20" tall, 12" wide.
Very good condition. Minimal
tiny scuffs, some rubbing to the varnish though paper
preserved perfectly in these exposed areas.
Persia and Constantinople are
visible, The USSR is visible though Central Australia
is not yet displayed (as Costello certainly labeled
by 1927)
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