Although primarily known as makers and vendors of spectacles and optical intruments, the firm of Dollond is also to be found named on globes by William Bardin, according to Millburn. However, no 3-inch diameter globes by Bardin have so far been recorded. The distinctive border to the original cartouche on this example (a chain of small yellow circles) over which the name of Dollond is applied, is familiar from several other pocket globes, and therefore the Dollonds clearly sold globes by other makers also. We see the same decoration on globes by Jacob & Halse (Globe Labels, 5.17 and Christie's Los Angeles, 24 October 2001, Lot 128), as well as on spheres by Siberrad (Christie's South Kensington, 23 June 1999, Lot 12), Minshulls (Christie's South Kensington, 24 June 1998, Lot 19), Cox and Lane (Christie's South Kensington, 26 November 1997, Lots 17-18). Upon further investigation, we see also that the cartography is near identical on each of these examples. It is most likely that these 2¾-inch diameter spheres were produced by the shadowy figure of Nicolas, sometimes Nathanial, Lane, who himself acquired and updated the plates for the gores from Dudley Adams, who in turn had acquired and updated them from James Ferguson. From the Lane globes that survive with his name still visible, little or no alterations seem to have been made by Cox, Jacob & Halse, Dollond or others beyond the overlaying of their own cartouche, presumably in a cheap effort to cash in on the popularity of small, easily portable models of the Earth.