Globe, French, Forest, Terrestrial World, 2-Inch Table Globe, Ebonized turned stand, Paris: c. 1927-30

J. Forest (editor and globe maker)
Globe Terrestre, 2-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Paris: c. 1927-30
Ebonized turned wooden stand
5 inches high, 3 inches diameter base

A charming miniature globe, in a sense a pocket globe on ebonized wooden stand.

The terrestrial globe is surmounted by a disk finial, raised vertically on an ebonized wooden stand with a turned central standard and tapered to a round base.  The globe shows present-day St. Petersburg, Russia, as “Leningrad;” therefore, it was made after 1924.  Further, it shows Constantinople rather than Istanbul, indicating a date of manufacture before 1930.  In addition, it shows Central Australia as a separate territory (apparently so by dotted lines but not named), limiting its period from 1927 to 1931.  It was produced during the golden era of the French Art Deco period, though the original stand is fairly traditional, typical of earlier periods.

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