Tabletop globe - Columbus Earth Globe - 1930-1940

A “Columbus Erdglobus” is offered for sale: an original German globe from the 1930s, a desk/study model with a dark wooden base and silver-colored metal meridian.
Made by “Columbus Verlag,” the world’s most famous globe manufacturer, founded in Berlin in 1909.
W. Kden was their chief cartographer in the 1920s–40s.
Based on many details, it can be stated that it was made between 1930 and 1934, during the Weimar Republic.
This period is highly sought after by collectors because it offers the last snapshot of the colonial world before the Second World War. Excellent condition, with its original varnish, no major cracks across the 12 paper gores, and its original wooden base with patina.
These globes were hand-applied to a plaster sphere, using 12 sections of lithographed paper.