The first globe I ordered came with a few misaligned latitude lines (which I was willing to overlook), and more importantly, some slits in the leather that looked like they would catch and possibly peel with regular handling. I called Replogle, and, after sharing photos with a helpful employee who seemed genuinely concerned with the issues, was generously offered a replacement ball that arrived via express mail. This new ball is very smooth but has significant misalignment that resulted in cropped names (the first letter of a number of countries in W. Africa and Europe was cropped, sometimes by half) and misaligned country boundaries along the same vertical line.
If you're not looking closely the globe is quite lovely, but cursory inspection turns up a number of flaws that should not appear on a $200 product (especially one meant as a gift). If you're interested in this globe I would encourage you to buy it at a store so you can inspect it and decide if you're willing to live with the flaws. Or try your luck here as I said, Replogle had wonderful customer service and may get these production problems worked out in the future. Until then, I won't be buying another Replogle product unless I see it in person.
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We have been looking for a quality glode for my upstairs home office, and found it with this globe. The small manual that comes with it helps with really understandng the International date line, time zones, distances and brings World geography into perspective
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