Odd--you're right, though I can't figure out why. The docs seem to say that you get a new glob when you localize:

The construct local *name; creates a whole new symbol table entry for the glob "name" in the current package. That means that all variables in its glob slot ($name, @name, %name, &name, and the "name" filehandle) are dynamically reset.

In any case, the following does work correctly: 

open(S1, "/dev/null");
$a=*S1{IO};
{
    local(*S1);
    open(S1, "/dev/null");
    $b=*S1{IO};
}
print "$a $b\n";

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IO::Handle=IO(0x101536f8) IO::Handle=IO(0x1013cdec)

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In reply to Re^3: Globs and globals by BrentDax
in thread Globs and globals by Eyck

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