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Globes and Tabletop Accessories from Authentic Models
Have you ever wanted to know where Mozambique is? Sure, you can google it, but isn’t it nicer to see exactly where a country is in relation to you? Don’t press the zoom button, buy a globe.
Owning a globe as part of your tabletop accessories is a great way to preserve tradition. Authentic Models sells globes that are historically accurate, visually appealing, and gorgeously crafted. In the early modern period, during the Renaissance and afterwards, globes were made by gluing copperplate prints on paper mache centers. Only the very rich could afford these models of the earth, because of the price of the manufacturing and the riskiness of exploration.
Authentic Models reproduces the same tabletop accessories that were traditionally on the desks of barons and dukes, princes and kings. Many are exact reproductions from master cartographers like Gerardus Mercator and Weber Costello. Choosing which globe you like best will allow you to see the world through different eyes, a Mercator globe can show you how they viewed the world in the 16th century, and Costello will provide a early 20th century colonial lens.
The globe signified for the Dutch Masters a sense of worldliness, riches, and enlightenment. Today you can add these to your barware or beverage dispenser and discuss where you plan to visit next.
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