Large Replogle Globe Chicago USA Circa 1965-1971 with Raised 3D Mountains 30cm Diam 

A WONDERFUL VINTAGE CIRCA 1965-1971 REPLOGLE LAND AND SEA GLOBE. IT IS LARGE WITH A 30CM DIAMETER. WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL IS THAT ALL THE MOUNTAIN RANGES HAS A RAISED 3D AFFECT WHICH YOU CAN FEEL WITH YOUR FINGERS.
 
IT CAN BE DATED AS HAVING BEEN PRODUCED BETWEEN 1965 (WHEN RHODESIA WAS STILL SOUTHERN RHODESIA) AND 1971 (WHEN OMAN BECAME THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES).
 
SIZE: DIMENSIONS 30CM DIAMETER
 
CONDITION: IN GOOD USED VINTAGE CONDITION. SOME VINTAGE WEAR AS INDICATED ON PHOTOS WITH ONE LARGE RED PAINT STRIPE NEAR THE REPLOGLE NAME.
 
REPLOGLE GLOBES (1930-1969):
The name Replogle has been synonymous with globes since the companys 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 companys first big break came when the eminent Chicago retailer, Marshall Field and Company (Now part of Macys) selected Replogle to produce a globe for the Chicago Century of Progress Worlds 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.
When the company started, Replogle made globes by buying printed globe sheets from another company, cutting them into strips called gores, and painstakingly hand fitting the gores together and assembling the globes by hand.   As the company grew, the hand crafted tradition continued, and cartographers hired by Luther then created exclusive maps to be printed for our globes.  Special heated forming presses were purchased to form the globes into spheres and Replogle could then make thousands of globes. The company continues to make hand covered globes the old fashioned way, but globes made from the new process are more economical and allow most anyone to afford a globe.
Luther Replogle sold his growing company to Meredith Publishing (owner of Better Homes and Garden magazine) in 1959.  He continued to head up Replogle until his retirement from the company in 1969, when he was appointed by U.S. President Richard Nixon to become ambassador to Iceland.
The company has had several owners since founder Luther Replogle retired, including Meredith Publishing, the Bill Nickels family, and finally Herff Jones in 2010 (better known in the school market for class ringsIn 2014 however, with the lingering effects of economic downturns and a new globe product line that did not fit in with their established market, Herff Jones announced that they would sell part of the division and close Replogle Globes.  However a group consisting of four former employees dug into their savings, put up their homes as security, recruited investors, and purchased Replogle Globes from Herff Jones on September 12, 2014. Replogle Globes continues to make the traditional lines of globes.
 
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