On average, the studio produces about 750 globes each year, with rates starting at about £ 1,300 ($1,800) for a mini desk globe to £ 44,500 ($89,000) for the largest model.

This 1955 video above discovered by British Pathé, one of the leading newsreel archives in the world, shows how making something like a globe by hand required all hands on deck.It certainly wasn ...