My good friend Bud sent this picture and story:
One day I watched a man going over my motorcycle so closely I thought he
was intent on stealing it. Turned out he owned several, has a small museum
of them and drove a bulk transport truck for Martin Oil Service during the
same time I worked in their terminal for Texas Eastern pipeline. A short
time later he called me to his place of business where I met another former
Martin employee that I had gauged many a tank with. He had brought a globe,
my new friend already had one like it so it became mine for a very
reasonable price. My friend has all the Martin globes that we know of and I
had my first real globe!