#custom made globe

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The 127cm Churchill globe

Made bespoke to order in London - we ship worldwide. You choose the colour of land and sea, the base, how the globe moves and you can personalise the map with travel routes, illustrations, and custom cartography.

www.bellerbyandco.com

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50cm diameter Britannia - Floor Standing Globe.

Ochre - with a matte finish.

Hand engraved solid Aluminium meridian and base.

The globe is hand painted and has bespoke cartography and hand drawn and hand painted illustrations.

Bellerby & Co Globemakers, London

www.bellerbyandco.com

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Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Isles. This is what Captain James C. Cook named the islands in 1778 in honor of his patron the Earl of Sandwich. Cook worked on a Yorkshire farm in his youth before winning an apprenticeship with a merchant sailing company at age 17. He cut his teeth as a mariner on shipping voyages in the choppy waters of North and Baltic Seas, and spent the next decade rising through the ranks and mastering the art of navigation. Cook first rose to prominence as a cartographer during the Seven Years’ War, when his detailed charts of the Saint Lawrence River helped the British pull off a surprise attack against French-held Quebec. In the early 1760s, he was given a ship and tasked with charting the island of Newfoundland off the coast of Canada. The map he produced was so accurate that it was still in use in the 20th century. Cook’s skill at charting the seas would later become a crucial tool in his explorer’s arsenal. He won command of his first round-the-world voyage in part because he could be trusted to navigate in uncharted territory and bring home precise maps of the lands he discovered. Cook’s career as an explorer began in August 1768, when he left England on HM Bark Endeavour with nearly 100 crewmen in tow. Their journey was ostensibly a scientific expedition—they were charged with sailing to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus across the face of the sun—but it also had a hidden military agenda. Cook carried sealed orders instructing him to seek out the “Great Southern Continent,” an undiscovered landmass that was believed to lurk somewhere near the bottom of the globe. The explorer followed orders and sailed south to the 40th parallel, but found no evidence of the fabled continent. He then turned west and circled New Zealand, proving it was a pair of islands and not connected to a larger landmass. Cook would later resume his search for the Southern Continent during his second circumnavigation of the globe in the early 1770s, and came tantalisingly close to sighting Antarctica before pack ice forced him to turn back. #GlobeFacts #WorldFacts via History.com. Globe is a 23cm diameter in Prussian Blue.

Bellerby & Co Globemakers, London

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Reed Green 36cm desk globe in progress last week & we get back to #GlobeFacts Iran. Before the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iranians loved American films. Afterward, all American films were banned because the ayatollah said that they glorified the Western lifestyle. Iranians still wanted to watch American films, but their only option was to smuggle bootleg copies into the country and view them clandestinely. Copies of American television shows, poor-quality films, and Betamax and VHS tapes became highly prized. However, the business was dangerous. “Video man” Bijan was given 100 lashes and fined $900, the equivalent of one year’s income for most middle-class families, when he was found to be selling bootleg videos. There was a bit of truth in what the ayatollah said about Western films. People did imitate what they saw on their screens. When the movie Top Gun became popular in Iran, Ray-Ban sunglasses from the film became enormously popular. Men also started imitating Tom Cruise’s hairstyle, which the authorities tried to combat by forcing men to shave their heads. But with the huge number of people following these Western trends, the authorities stopped enforcing the laws against them. After VHS went out of fashion, DVDs took their place. Although Iran is more open to Western films in the 21st century, many are still banned. One banned film is Argo, which portrays some of the events of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Ironically, hundreds of thousands of copies of the film have been sold in Iran, making it one of the country’s most popular bootleg films. #IranFacts ListVerse.com : See on Instagram We are found on www.bellerbyandco.com 👌🏼🌏💕

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Painting in progress.... 80cm handcrafted world globe at Bellerby & Co Globemakers, London.