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Bob, Here is an early hull crimped base globe. I bought this from a Texaco Jobber and these lenses were on it and had been on it for years. The lenses should be marked "HULL".




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Look close guys, you may never see one of these again. The yellow capco body is hard enough to find but the blue one is even tougher. Notice that the blue body is a WIDE old style capco. This is a very rare body dating from '32 or '33.
The lenses aren't too shabby either!
Thanks to Lonnie and Aaron Hop for sharing pictures of their globes.

Here are two oval body globes. The lenses are sanwiched in the plastic body. The lenses are bolted on the glass body. If you find oval lenses that aren't notched they go on a plastic body.
The two ovals pictured here are some of the best that exist. Most ovals are rather plain. These are from the collection of Lonnie and Aaron Hop.

Here we have a couple of nice ripple gill bodied globes. Note the screw on base on the green ripple.

Thanks again to Lonnie and Aaron.

Here are the two styles of clover bodies.


The one on the left is a Hull body. Note that it takes ROUND lenses.
Again many thanks to the Hop's for sharing their great globes with us.

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The next several pictures show banded glass and gill bodies, and how each holds its lenses.





Note how the gill ring clamps the lens to the body with the screw at the bottom. There are many sizes of gill bodies.
The banded glass body uses a metal band that has four studs protruding from the back. Banded glass bodies are uncommon. You mostly see them with Diamond DX lenses. A few other companies such as Tydol used them too.
These are from the Hop collection also. Thanks for sharing!

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Here are some extremely rare globes from Lonnie and Aaron Hop.
The Texaco is an original leaded glass on a special metal body. Note how wide the body is.
The Tiwowser is on a jeweled metal body. These look amazing when lit up.




Do you get the feeling these guys have all the nice stuff? LOL

A special thanks to Lonnie and Aaron for submitting pictures of their globes. Hopefully someone has benefitted from seeing all the different types of globe bodies.

We've still got one piece globes to do!

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Bob....

A small independent oil company here in Western Pennsylvania also used Banded Glass globe bodies on their earlier gas pump globes. Their name was "Wolf's Head", which was later purchased by Pennzoil....

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North Star and Mobil used banded glass bodies too. Diamond DX are the most common lenses you'll find on banded glass.
Bob

Anyone have original advertising for globe body manufacturers. I will try to find it, I have a color full page ad from Signs of The Times from I think 1935. It is for a maker of glass bodied globes with a hole right through it and uses a metal band or clamp. Also I think on the other side of the page it showed either making ad glass or signs. It had a pic of the Indian Gas logo the green and blue with that round top jukebox looking thing on it.

Also Home Oil Co up here used glass bodied globes either banded or gill I think...dodogas

Bob,Great Job your efforts to educated us is appreciated by all.You made it easy to ID globe bodies.A lot of the I don't know about globes guys will give globes a second look.
And what can you say about the HOP globes the BEST!! A big thanks to the HOP family for sharing and helping the hobby HTH.Ain't it great,Rex.

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Dodogas, Post a picture of your ad. I'd like to see it. Home oil used banded glass bodies.

Rex,I hope this months "globe of the month" will help some of the new collectors. Many don't realize how many different types of globes there are.

I plan to add a few more pictures as time permits.
Bob

Was at an auction in Springfield, Ill. last weekend. I was bidding on an original wide bodied glass globe BODY and I quit at $240 as I was going by Scott Benjamin's book value of 150 bucks, retail. The thing sold for over 280 dollars, kind of high!! I was hoping someone would out bid me and they did!!!

Super job on this topic Bob. Could you inform the readers of the various sizes of Gill bodied globes with the retaining ring held on by a screw? They are not all 13 1/2 inch.

Gary, You're right. Not all gill bodies are 13 1/2". I've seen 13 1/4, 13 3/8, 13 1/2, 14 inch gills. There are probably other sizes too. 13 3/8 seems to be the most common size (at least with the gills I have). Since the body sizes are so close together, different size lenses will sometimes interchange between the different body sizes.

Lenses for gill and banded bodies do not have notches. It's possible to put notched lenses that were meant for plastic and sometimes glass bodies on a gill body. The retainer rings cover the notches. Alot of times collectors will put graphic lenses that are notched,on a ripple gill body.

National (White Rose) used 14" gills. Any 14" globe is hard to find (there are regular 14" 3 piece glass globes too).

Does anyone have any info on what size gill globes different companies used? National and some independants used 14". What companies used 13 1/2, 13 3/8, etc ?

We need some pics of one piece globes showing the different profiles (narrow, wide, rounded wide). It would be nice to have some detailed pics of one piece etched, baked, and cast globes too.
Bob