This fine relief globe would appear from the mispelling of certain labels, and the naming of the flying boat and Zeppelin routes in German, to be a German globe manufactured for an English-speaking market. The stand is very much of the style used by the Berlin-based Columbus-Verlag company from 1909 onwards (see Christie's Globes and Planetaria, Wednesday 26 November 1997, pp30-35), as is the typography and lay-out (see in particular Lot 56, ibid). However, Columbus-Verlag were a large and successful company who produced an extensive array of globes, and it seems unusual that they should not have put their trade label to this globe. Of Particular interest is the recording of the flight of..... between X and Y, which first took place in 19...
Russia is marked LENINGRAD and Ethiopia is labelled ABYSSINIA, thus dating the globe to between 1924 when St Petersburg was renamed, and 1935 when Ethiopia became Italian East Africa following its invasion by Mussolini's troops.