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My father won a set of children's encyclopedias and a globe in the
1960s in a competition and we only recently threw away the globe as it
had broken. It did indeed seem to be made of papier mache. I presume
it was spherical not oblate (it would only have been about 1mm
different I think)

Bill

On 19 November 2016 at 09:48, David Pike  wrote:
> The bit they start with appears heavy to lift.  The finished Globe appears
> fairly light for its size, so how do they get the middle out?  Couldn’t you
> have great fun if all the slices rotated like a kind of Rubik’s sphere?
> What a great teaching aid that would be.
>
> Also, you have to remember that for some time after WW2 materials were still
> in short supply in the UK.  Modern plastics were still fairly limited in
> their availability, and aluminium for spinning might still have been
> difficult to come by for domestic use.  Most birthday and Christmas present
> games were made from that cheapest form of cardboard, strawboard I think it
> was called, that rarely survived the day.
>
> DaveP
>
> 



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