COLUMBUS-VERLAG, Germany GEOGRAPHIA, London

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COLUMBUS-VERLAG, Germany GEOGRAPHIA, London
COLUMBUS DUO GLOBE System: Villinger - Oestergaard German and foreign patents Edited by W. Kaden, cartographer Political and physical Sole agents in the United Kingdom "GEOGRAPHIA" LTD 167 FLEET STR., LONDON, E.C.4 PRINTED IN GERMANY [c.1970]
A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and one polar calotte laid on glass, the equatorial and Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the oceans showing warm and cold ocean currents, steamship routes and submarine cable lines, the continents with nation states coloured in various colours and showing physical and political details including caravan routes and the Great Wall of China, printed hour dial at the North Pole (small area of paper loss on North Polar circle, small paint marks in southern Pacific Ocean) with stamped aluminum meridian half-circle on circular aluminium and fruitwood plinth base -- 17in. (43.1cm.) high

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The labelling of the Congo as independent places the manufacture of this globe after 1966. However, Thailand is still labelled Ceylon, the name it bore until 1972.

The gores of this globe are clearly updated from the popular Columbus Duo-Globe lamps, which showed alternately physical and political features as the lamp was switched on or off. Furthermore, the gores are here laid on a glass sphere, but it would seem that the globe was never intended for use as a lamp as it is mounted such as to preclude the admittance of a cable to the interior.