Vintage 12 Inch Terrestrial Globe on Bronze Atlas Base

Circa 1940, paper gore construction, adhered cartouche marked "P. & P. NAUTIQUE / Present Day Globe / Depicting Political and Physical Terrain, Major / Cities; Rivers, etc. Heights above Sea Level; Ocean Depths, etc. / Scale 1:41 820 000," within a full brass meridian, mounted atop a patinated bronze hunched Roman style Atlas figure and black marble plinth.

31 1/2 in.

Private Collection of an Antiquarian, Charlotte, North Carolina

Toning to gores; crack to small disc surmount between globe and meridian; overall good estate condition.