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Hello guys and gals!

I recently acquired a very rare globe. Came from a collector who had it for the last 40 years. It is a white crown globe with the early 7" flange base. No chips or cracks in the globe and just needs to be cleaned form dirt and dust. Cant find another one online to compare values so any information on year of production and estimated value would be great! Thanks in advance

Generally speaking the embossed lettered crowns are the only ones with a flanged glass base. Crowns like the one pictured with flanged glass base are usually reproductions (95% of the time) but I’m not a globe expert. I’m sure someone with more crown globe knowledge will chime in & tell you how to tell if it reproduction or original. But rule of thumb for me is if it isn’t an embossed letter crown & it has a glass flanged base it’s reproduction.

I'm looking for someone that knows the crown globes, the 7" flange base is a early model and very rare most people think they are reductions. Im know this is not a reproduction. I have seen and held many of them, they are almost always a 6" base as well. I need someone who really knows crown globes.

A few more details this one has the arrow base and some faint blue paint left in some tiny spots.

Your globe is original any 7" base crown is original. 99% of any threaded base crowns are original. Any 6" base crown is phony. Now it was painted at one time so technically it's not a "White Crown" but could have been another color. Still original though. Did you say blue specks? If so it was blue at one time. Since all the paint is gone not a lot of value. $650-$700 retail tops. I collect crowns and washed out crowns are very common, as are Gold, Red and pure White ones. Original paint Blue, Green, Gray and the early raised letter ones have much more value. Blue Crowns were used in the 1930s/40s. Pure White 1930-1955, Gold after 1956. Red from 1930 or so into the late 1950s...The raised letter crowns are all from the 1920s and the early etched ones 1910s...Been collecting for nearly 50 years I buy and sell original globes too...

Also…. Additional ‘evidence’ that it was painted (aside from the specs of paint)…. The etched glass indicates it was once painted. They did not etch original white crowns, because no paint was being applied to them.