About Bellerby Globe
It was originally intended to create two of these, one for each. After all, how difficult can it be to build a ball and put a map on it. Bellerby Globe anticipated the entire process to take three, maybe four months and cost a few thousand pounds. All of Bellerby Globe savings plus more ended up taking two years. It took eighteen months to get the hang of goring the globe applying the map. The challenge they faced was that none of the current globemakers were making globes that were even near to ideal. Uneven latitude lines appeared to be the rule. There are producers whose use of gore overlaps to the point where it wipes out entire nations, something that many a dictator would be proud of. Even some well-known commercial printers have begun cutting out tiny triangles at the gores' edges to stop the paper from ridging.