By Nick
As a collector, I have a wide range of tastes. As you may know, I
collect Disney. I also have collected comic books, Star Wars, and
Muppets (before they were Disney). In addition, I have a sizable globe
and map collection, reflecting my love of travel. So, put 2 things I
love to collect together, and you have a sure fire winner, such as Star
Wars and Disney, or Star Wars and Muppets
Another winner is this metal Disney globe. It’s a smaller globe, measuring 10″ from the base.
Brought to us by Walt Disney and
Rand McNally.
I’ve
dated this globe to the late 1950s. As globes are not dated, you can
figure out roughly when they were manufactured by geopolitical names and
boundaries. Now, I’m no scholar, as anyone I know will tell you, but
this globe also has a couple of clues that helped me reach that
conclusion.
First, I know it’s from after 1955 by this wonderful
little graphic of Mickey inviting us to “Visit Disneyland and see All
your Disney friends like ME.”
Then,
the globe also shows Goofy riding a camel across French West Africa,
which Wikipedia tells me was a federation that existed from 1895 until
1960. So, It had to be made somewhere between 1955 and 1960.
Best guess.
Mickey points the way, and lets us know “There’s something to learn Wherever you turn.”
Indeed, there are little bits of trivia all around this globe.
The
base has some interesting characters, including Willie the Whale from
the short cartoon “The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met” from the
1946 “package film” ” Make Mine Music” from 1946.
I
thought I’d share a picture of part of my globe collection. There are
several more, scattered around the house.
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