This large globe was made using traditional methods such as wetting and stretching paper gores across a handmade sphere. The map is designed by Bellerby & Co using present-day cartography. The wooden base was crafted in such a way as to allow the globe to spin 360 degrees within a handmade and hand-engraved brass meridian.
If a Hollywood set designer were to imagine the workshop of a globe maker, he could not do much better than the vast open space where Peter Bellerby c ...
