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) Item #CN125 - Sold