.... .....Click on the small pictures below to see full size "before" and "after" photos.
Xmas Tree - A forecast of an unusually mild winter with no snow for this festive tree with a golden base. Needed to be repaired, repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Xmas Bears - These teddies were left high and dry when someone played bounce the bears. Needed to be repaired, repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Joseph, Mary & Jesus - Another crummy place for the famous family to stay. Needed to be repaired, refilled, and resealed.
Mountain Scene - No snow on this mountain for quite a while. Needed to be repaired, refilled, and resealed.
St. Anthony - Anthony is holding a baby inside this globe, but he couldn't hold the water. The decal lifted off and broke into several pieces. Needed cleaning, refilling, the Bakelite base repaired, polished, and resealed.
1939 World's Fair - San Francisco never looked so overcast as when muddy water obscured the tower inside this historic globe. Needed to be cleaned, refilled, polished, and resealed.
Deer - Bambi's dad couldn't find "the meadow" inside this globe. The standard ailment of Atlas globes is muddy water. Needed to be cleaned, refilled, polished, and resealed.
Uncle Alfred - The old gentleman fell into cloudy water and couldn't get up in this, perhaps first, Japanese dome of the 1950's. Needed to be cleaned, repaired, refilled, and polished.
Trapped in Paradise - Paradise was released in this advertising globe for the movie of the same name when the glass globe shattered. Needed to be repaired, repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Washington D.C. - The look of this globe was appropriate to the murky goings on in the seats of power, but it was not acceptable to its owner. Needed to be cleaned, refilled, have the ceramic base repaired, and resealed.
Bears - These teddies were left high and dry when someone played bounce the bears. Needed to be repaired, repainted, refilled, and resealed. Two different people sent me this dome.
Disney Castle - Wishing upon a star didn't help this time. Needed to be repaired, repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Frogs - As aquatic creatures, these frogs missed their pond along with one of the froggy's hands. Needed to be repaired (a new hand fabricated), repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Scotty - The owner of this little dome wanted it to match his dog--a white terrier. Needed to be repainted, refilled, and resealed.
Perzy Xmas Tree - This tree fell in the black forest, and luckily someone was there to hear it. Needed to be repaired, refilled, and resealed.
Chicago, Il - The oil in this dome looked like the bad cholesterol you get from eating the steaks from this famous city. Needed repair, oil and filter change.
Native American - This dome came in pieces. Needed to be repainted, reassembled, refilled, and resealed.
Little Flower - This dome also came in pieces. The shrine needed rebuilding. Needed to be repainted, reassembled, refilled, and resealed.
Eagle - Another dome close to extinction. The oil inside this globe had become so yellow you couldn't even see the figure. Needed to be refilled and resealed.
