To say the room is chaotic and cluttered is an understatment. The place has the air of a wizard's den. What I've done that nobody else has really done before is make a systematic study, a collection, a market for antique American globes themselves,' he says. It appeals to them for any number of reasons. The serious collector is the person who accumulates prime examples of different periods that tell an entire story.
Globes serve multiple purposes.
They are partly maps. America's spherical maps, for example, help tell the story of how the nation developed. They also tell much about the history of education, since most were made for that purpose, notes Glazer. What I've tried to do is specialize in globes to the extent of putting them together in a larger selection.