English Terrestrial Globe by Chad Valley

Little globe with a half-circle meridian and a red base with a crest.

This lithograph tin terrestrial globe by Chad Valley is from Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1940. Chad Valley is an English maker of toys and games, and its tinplate globes were produced in the mid twentieth century for children and classrooms. Close up, a small desk globe with pale yellow, green and blue lands and seas, held in a thin curved metal arc by a short peg on top. It stands on a red-brown angled base with a printed crest and a round foot. It is 11 inches high and 8 in diameter.

The whole world, arranged neatly for a modest desk.