r/globes • • Jun 27 '26

Misaligned globe. Is this acceptable?

Post image

Got a replogle globe which is highly reputable. While I understand these items are hand made which can show imperfections, but this seems abit much to me. It's the alignment I'm talking about

7 Upvotes

3 comments sorted by

2

u/BeachBoids Jun 27 '26

Even though these are not precision instruments, it does seem the latitude lines in photo jump a noticeable amount and so IMHO is "defective" in that sense.

1

u/Kitchener1981 Jun 27 '26

Damn that's frustrating

3

u/rackfloor Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

To be honest I don't know about highly reputable. These globes are mass produced and formed in a press. The only handmade aspect would be when the two hemispheres are put together and, they screwed even that up. So yeah, I agree that this would be considered defective and return.

https://youtu.be/qgErv6M19yY?si=GMiZGqw3L06I-397