An old map is large paper. A globe is a sphere on a stand that falls over and whose color layer cracks. In the overview Security for collectors, this is paper plus an object that needs the room.

What breaks without a thief

Light fades borders and colors. Folds break. A globe next to the heating dries out, the meridian warps, the sphere gets cracks. You store maps flat and dark. You set the globe clear of knocks, not in a passageway, not by the window.

When someone comes

A rolled map is light. A globe is bulky and still goes if it is small. Expensive sheets lie in the large folder, not as a roll by the door. The globe stands so that it is not the first thing in the hall. The insurance needs the dimensions and a photo from all sides.

The folder

Cartographer or publisher, year, dimensions, folded or flat, damage, proof. For the globe: diameter, condition of the sphere, whether the meridian is original.