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Globe, German, Columbus Verlag, Pair, Terrestrial World, Celestial, 4-Inch Table Globes, Pedestal Ebonized Stands, Berlin, c. 1960s

$1,500

Columbus Verlag Paul Oestergaard
4-Inch Pair of Terrestrial & Celestial Globes
Berlin and Stuttgart: c. 1960s
8 inches high, 3.5 inch diameter base
$1,500, the pair

Pair of small terrestrial and celestial globes. Each globe is mounted within a chromed calibrated half meridian and raised on a black, turned, ebonized wood stand with central baluster standard and dish base. The terrestrial globe has blue oceans and geographic entities in a variety of colors. The celestial globe shows a deep blue night sky and yellow stars, constellations indicated by straight lines (not mythological figures) with the Milky Way shown prominently, shaded white.

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Description

Columbus Verlag Paul Oestergaard is a major German globe making company founded in Berlin in 1905 by Paul Oestergaard and run by successive generations of his descendants up to his great-grandson in the present day. From the beginning, Columbus emphasized mass-production to make globes affordable to a broad public. Before World War II, the company had a large export business, producing globes in 24 languages. After the war, because the Russian blockade in 1948-49 isolated Berlin from the rest of West Germany, the company established a plant in Stuttgart. Throughout its history, the company has developed innovative designs for conveying the educational content of their globes.

Cartouche on terrestrial globe: COLUMBUS GLOBE/ Edited/ by cartographer/ W. Kaaen/ COLUMBUS-VERLAG-PAUL OESTERGAARD/ BERLIN AND STUTTGART/ 667/ MADE IN [??]/ Scale 1:115 Mill./ Nr. 560905

Cartouche on celestial globe: COLUMBUS-CELESTIAL GLOBE/ compiled by/ PROF. DR. JOHANNES RIEM/ drawn by C. Luther/ COLUMBUS VERLAG PAUL OESTERGAARD/ BERLIN AND STUTTGART/ 966

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Globe Type

Celestial, Terrestrial

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Material

Ebonized, Wood