DENOYER-GEPPERT Co., Chicago

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DENOYER-GEPPERT Co., Chicago
4" GLOBE Made by DENOYER-GEPPERT Co Chicago U.S.A. [c.1944]
A 4-inch (10.2cm.) diameter terrestrial miniature globe, made up of two colour printed tin hemispheres, the continents coloured yellow, green, orange and beige, national boundaries and international date line strikingly marked in red, some cities and rivers labelled, on unengraved steel meridian half circle, on wire stand with printed tin base-plate A WORLD OF GLOBES/FOR/SCHOOLS - HOMES - OFFICES/LIBRARIES/VARIOUS DIAMETERS - MOUNTINGS - TYPES/POLITICAL - PHYSICAL - ASTRONOMICAL/SLATED - OUTLINE/Write for Catalog DENOYER-GEPPERT COMPANY/EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS/AND MANUFACTURERS/5235-57 Ravenswood Ave./Chicago/A GLOBE MAKES A WONDERFUL GIFT -- 5¾in. (14.6cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The presence of Ethiopia and an undivided Germany, as well as the absence of Pakistan, places the date of the globe between the defeat of the Italians in East Africa in 1944 and at the latest the seccession of Pakistan from India in 1947, if not the division of Germany in 1945.

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