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The Moon Globe

22cm or 36cm diameter

Shown on a solid handcrafted polished Copper base. Options in Aluminium, Brass, Walnut, Oak +

www.bellerbyandco.com | Bellerby & Co Globemakers, London

We ship worldwide - each globe is made bespoke to order and can be personalised.

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Mint Green Cassini Livingstone Desk Globe with added personalisation like hand drawn and hand painted illustrations, travel routes and bespoke cartography.

Each globe is made bespoke to order.

36cm (14 inch) diameter | Cherry base | Gloss finish www.bellerbyandco.com | [email protected]

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36cm Reed Green Livingstone Desk Globe | www.bellerbyandco.com

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Earth from space! This style of globe is reminiscent of the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph. Painted carefully to show the more heavily forested areas as well as where Earths deserts are. The ocean gets lighter as it nears the coasts and makes use of the watercolours to really show texture.

Each base is fitted with roller bearings to enable fluid movement in any direction by hand. This colouring of globe looks great with all the bases we offer.

Our globes are all made to order, the cartography will always be up to date and reflect the world as it was when you commissioned your globe.

The ocean is shown in it's suggested colour to contrast beautifully with the land but different colours can be requested.

The Albion bases are available with or without the little metal feet by request, they look great both ways.

Presented with its own bespoke flight case, your base will be fitted with an inscribed copper plaque noting the edition number and style, and shipped with a certificate of ownership.

The commission includes a personalised engraving and 10 cartography edits, we will be in touch with more details after you place your order to discuss.

Each globe is made bespoke to order, for short time frames ask us about our gift card options. There is likely to be a 9 month - 1 year waiting list for our 22cm globes.

Please email [email protected] to receive more photos, base and colour options as well as to discuss personalisation and shipping estimates.

www.bellerbyandco.com

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Hackney Magazine Spring 2018

Photos thanks to Julian Love, Ana Santl, Tom Bunning, Alun Callender, Jade Fenster and Andrew Meredith.

Please get in touch to discuss personalisation and customisation options – email [email protected].

We ship worldwide from our London studio.

For more info please see our website : bellerbyandco.com –

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Continuing on with #GlobeFacts on the theme of changing names.. while we look at North & Central America we are actually talking... Ceylon to Sri Lanka (1972). Ceylon was a European colonial name bestowed upon the island nation by the Portuguese in 1505 and carried over by the British Empire who “owned” Ceylon until 1948. The name was finally changed in 1972 to shed the colonial connection, a not uncommon sentiment by former colonies. Before the beginning of the Dutch governance, the island of Ceylon was divided between the Portuguese Empire and the Kingdom of Kandy, who were in the midst of a war for control of the island as a whole. The island attracted the attention of the newly formed Dutch Republic when they were invited by the Sinhalese King to fight the Portuguese. Dutch rule over much of the island was soon imposed. In the late 18th century the Dutch, weakened by their wars against Great Britain, were conquered by Napoleonic France, and their leaders became refugees in London. No longer able to govern their part of the island effectively, the Dutch transferred the rule of it to the British, although this was against the wishes of the Dutch residing there. As soon as Great Britain gained the European-controlled parts of Ceylon from the Dutch, they wanted to expand their new sphere of influence by making the native Kingdom of Kandy a protectorate, an offer initially refused by the King of Kandy. Although the previous Dutch administration had not been powerful enough to threaten the reign of the Kandyan Kings, the British were much more powerful. The Kandyan refusal to accept a protectorate led eventually to war, which ended with the capitulation of the Kandyans. Sri Lanka's documented history spans 3,000 years, with evidence of pre-historic human settlements dating back to at least 125,000 years. In 1972, its formal name was changed to "Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka". Later in 1978 it was changed to the "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka". Its recent history has been marred by a thirty-year civil war. #SriLankaFacts via Wikipedia. Globe 23cm in Prussian Blue | www.bellerbyandco.com

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50cm diameter Albion Desk Globe by Bellerby & Co Globemakers, London.

Colour is Glacial Blue with added personalisation like hand drawn & hand painted illustrations, bespoke cartography & hand written calligraphy.

Base : London Plane. The Globe spins 360 degrees in a fluid motion by hand.

Each globe is made bespoke to order and can be personalised in endless ways.

www.bellerbyandco.com