Today, since globes are practically only deep-drawn from plastic (which has made them cheaper and cheaper for decades, but also "accordingly"), there is hardly a glassworks left that is able to blow the large spheres of tempered glass. Our glass globes from Räth Globenverlag zu Leipzig represent the experience of generations; also because the art of making such things will soon be extinct, they are things that justify undisguised pride of ownership. A glass globe provides an incomparably plastic map image - and illuminated it is of its own, atmospheric effect.