School dumpster gives up 12 Expensive Globes! Random Find..

[Minrelica]

I headed out to a new park to do some detecting after work and by the time I arrived there I was so thoroughly annoyed from the heavy rush hour traffic that I turned into the wrong lot to park. While I was turning around I pulled forward and looked ahead of me to notice a dumpster filled with globes? I just sat and stared at them for about 30 seconds in disbelief but then pulled forward to see that yes, it actually was a dumpster filled with globes and it was just outside of the back door of a school. I immediately knew that I had to take a couple.. err.. all of them because that's how I am. I just can't let nice things like this go to the landfill! Even if I didn't want them I would find good homes for all of them. I loaded them all into my truck, 12 total.. then went out to detect for a while but I was so pumped from the score that my mind wasn't really concentrating on detecting. After about 45 minutes I researched the globes on my phone. They turned out to be NYSTROM Readiness Globes that are used in schools and retail for $385 each with the bases, which are there.. Wow, they are all excellent, pretty much near mint condition too! I do a lot of buying and re-selling so I won't have a problem getting rid of these I'm sure.. I'm glad I took the before pic to prove that they were in the dumpster.

Thanks for looking. - WIT

UPDATE:

The majority of these globes ended up at a start-up school located in Northern Minnesota. I did accept some money but it was very little. I was happy to know that they were going back into a school. The two teachers who picked them up were absolutely thrilled.

 

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[Minrelica]

I know this isn't a detecting find but it IS today's find.

 

[Felinepeachy]

I guess I would be asking the school why tax payer dollars are going to waste.

Good score though. I hope you make better use of them than the school did.

 

[Minrelica]

I guess I would be asking the school why tax payer dollars are going to waste.

Good score though. I hope you make better use of them than the school did.

I totally agree! I also think the retail is so high because they do sell to schools. They are definitely nice but not $385 nice.

 

[lurediver]

Hmmm, I didnt know globes went bad?


Knowing the school system they probably payed double the retail value for them and only used them for one school year.

 

[Felinepeachy]

Well globes can become outdated when borders and territories change. Or countries are wiped out LOL

 

[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Well globes can become outdated when borders and territories change. Or countries are wiped out LOL

Those are some nice pics. I need to start taking a camera with me when I go out. Nice finds! DD.

 

[rob.s]

Great find and I would of did the same thing by taking them!I'm surprised the school didn't donate them.

 

[Minrelica]

Those are some nice pics. I need to start taking a camera with me when I go out. Nice finds! DD.

I just took them with my phone which works pretty darn good. Thanks!

Great find and I would of did the same thing by taking them!I'm surprised the school didn't donate them.

Seriously, how can anyone just throw these in the dumpster?? On one hand I'm glad that there's people like this in the world but only if it results in someone like myself finding the items before they get destroyed. I do re-sell things but that's not everything to me. I already gave one to my neighbor that was admiring them while I was unloading. I like to give people cool things that they are into.

 

[hombre_de_plata_flaco]

Props for rescuing tax payer dollars from the dumpster! I like to give stuff away too sometimes. Some older globes can be quite valuable. Like peachy said, borders and countries change all the time. I would like to have examples of a pre/post WWI & WWII globes just to see all the changes that took place. Africa and the Middle East would probably show the most changes.

 

[wwwtimmcp]

probably just outdated, but imagine the proper pyrothechnics and "its the end of the world as we know it" why not ask the kids if they wanted one or as a prize in geography or history. wastefull.

 

[djm of PA]

Nice find!!!
For those that aren't aware, public schools have laws that prohibit them from easily and efficiently reselling items deemed "surplus or trash". While the globes look nice, they are becoming an item that just takes up space in a classroom. With google Earth and the technology age, they are no longer a necessity in a classroom.
Some schools also have laws/policies restricting them from just giving them away. Sometimes the best items are sitting there in a school dumpster just waiting to be found.
Is it a shame...yes. Is it the school's way of wasting tax money, NO. If you don't like it, go to your local school board meetings and voice up your opinion on these policies and fight to change them. I work for a school and I cringe every time we throw a bunch of good stuff away. Of course, I usually bring the truck to work the next morning and show up early before the garbage man gets here

 

[jewelerguy]

good score

 

[Minrelica]

Okay guys, I need your help with this one.

I do realize that these globes are probably outdated but I'd like to know what year they were made. I called Nystrom this morning and they emailed me info on how to determine the age of the globes by the model & serial numbers but I'm just not "getting it" . I had a couple co-workers try as well and they were a bit confused. I know there's a lot of intelligent people on here so I'm sure someone can solve the puzzle. (if not, the Nystrom expert will be in tomorrow and I can call back)

The numbers off my globes are: 56789-0-32 Globe 33R-47

The following was from the email:

Products Printed Before 1980
Early Nystrom maps and globes carried a copyright notice but no year date. The
Copyright Law exempted maps from the general requirement that published
materials show the copyright year. At some point the company began including
other information in a print code, a string of digits and letters that appeared near
the bottom of the sheet or in the legend. Here’s an example of a print code that
appeared on a globe:

8ASR9377

The first and last digits gave the year of the printing in reverse, and so the above
code tells us that this globe was printed in 1978.
Products Printed From 1980 to 1995
In 1976 Congress enacted a new Copyright Law that changed the requirements
for maps, and all new maps copyrighted from 1978 on were now required to have
a year date in the copyright notice. The first Nystrom maps coming under the
new law were published after 1980.

Since the new law did not apply to maps published before 1978, the copyright
notices on older maps were left alone—without copyright dates. Print codes, of
course, were updated.

In the 1980s Nystrom also began showing edition dates on maps, especially on
maps that gave the original copyright date:

Copyright 1984
Edition 1986

We began showing edition dates because the Copyright Office will not grant a
new copyright for routine map revisions, and customers began to worry that
maps with two- or three-year-old copyright dates were outdated. The newer
edition dates reassured them.

Print Codes From 1995 to Present
Nystrom maps, globes, and charts printed since 1995 carry the style of print code
illustrated below. In addition to telling us the year in which the product was
printed, the code also allows us to identify up to three separate printings within
that year. The identification of specific printings in a given year is helpful to us for
quality control.

With each new printing and year, digits are deleted to update the code. As in the
examples below, read the underlined digits in the code backwards to get the
printing and year:

Printing #1 in 1995 5678901234-09-321
Printing #3 in 1998 8901234-09-3
Printing #2 in 2000 01234-0 -32
Printing #1 in 2001 1234567890-0 -321

Copyright Dates Dropped in 1997
In 1988 the Copyright Law was amended in a way that made the formal copyright
notice optional. At first Nystrom continued using the older copyright notices, but
our competitors quickly began dropping the year date from theirs. In 1997 we
began to do the same thing.
We also have dropped edition dates from maps, globes, and charts. But we still
give the copyright year and edition date in atlases and program guides (see
below).

Atlases and Program Guides
Nystrom book materials—such as atlases and binder programs—continue to
show a full copyright notice, complete with the original copyright year. The
copyright notice usually appears on the reverse side of the title page.
When a book reprints in a year following the copyright year, we add a new edition
date near the copyright notice. The same edition date is used for any printing
during that year. Recently, we began stating the new edition date like this:

2001 Update of Names and Boundaries

We make frequent corrections and minor revisions in our book materials, but we
cannot claim a new copyright except when we add substantial amounts of new
text. Customers who might be concerned about a two- or three-year-old copyright
date can be reassured by the edition date.

Somewhere near the copyright notice, there is also a print code that we find
useful for internal quality-control purposes. The code is in the traditional form
used for books and differs from the one used on maps and globes. For example,
here’s the code for a book that printed for the first time in 1995:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 99 98 97 96 95

The first string of digits is used to show the total number of printings in the book’s
lifetime, not just the number in a given year. If the above book had its fifth printing
in 1997, then its code was altered to look like this:

10 9 8 7 6 5 99 98 97

 

[Minrelica]

Well my girlfriend thinks she cracked the code

2005
you look at the stuff before the last -##s
yours is 56789-0
see we drop the -32
the -32 is the series that year
then we look at the last and first numbers
so yours are 5 and 0
then... you read them backwards.
so its 05
i think your -32 means it was the second printing that year

 

[prolab69]

12? ...that actually is alot of tax $$..ya figure about $25 a piece or more for each one? heck yeah I would`ve done the same thing!! Now go and put them all up the schools flagpole

 

[underdogger]

I think anyone with common sense would have emptied that dumpster. Nice save . I am so sick of hearing about school budgets and layoffs. Why don't they have a big district garage sale insted of just throwing them away . They now spend millions on atheletic fields and forget that someone(s) job is gone . The U.S. kids are falling behind the rest of the world. bla bla bla i'll get off the stump. Rob

 

[allen]

good find and hope you make some bucks on them !

 

[Silver Slayer]

Good dumpster dive

 

[creskol]

They threw them away because they don't teach kids geography anymore. I would be willing to bet that half the teachers have never even spun a globe!