# Securing maps and globes: the sheet flat, the sphere clear of knocks

> Securing maps and globes: maps flat and dark, globes clear of knocks and not by the heating, note size and condition.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/landkarten-globen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

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](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), 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.


## Häufige Fragen

### Hang the map?

Without direct sun, and not for the long term, if the price sits in the unfolded sheet.

### Handle the globe?

By the axis or the stand, not on the color layer with damp hands.

### A roll with a rubber band?

No. Rubber cuts in. A folder is the better place.