NKRK Terrestrial Globe, Germany

The Americas face front on a sea-green globe, cradled in a brass half-circle.

This NKRK terrestrial globe comes from Germany and is dated 1934. It is brass, plaster and wood. German globe makers were among the most prolific of the early 20th century, producing printed paper gores laid over a plaster-coated sphere for schools and studies. This one shows the continents in pale yellow, green and pink on a soft green ocean, with fine lines of latitude and longitude. A brass half-meridian holds it at a tilt on a turned black wooden column and round base. The base edge shows wear. It is 18 inches high and 10 in diameter.

The world as it was mapped that year, still turning politely.