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    Date my Globe!

    One of the habits I have is everytime I see a globe that looks the least bit old I have to try and figure out when it was made without looking at the copyright date. I'm hardly an expert at this, its just something I like doing.

    Recently I found a small tin globe/penny bank at an antique store, pre WWII at least. It has no date on it and I haven't really researched how old it is because I think that would take some of the fun out of it. But now I think it would be kind of cool if I gave the question to you guys to see what you came up with for a possible date. Here's the globe...



    The base says "WORLD BANK - AS YOU SAVE - SO YOU PROSPER" and also Made in the USA by the Ohio Art Company if anyone cares to know(I'm secretly hoping some Antique Roadshow buff will tell me this is worth $10,000).

    I'll start you guys off with the obvious, Europe...

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    If it's pre-WWII why doesn't Germany own that East Prussia enclave?
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    • #3
      It's post 1948. Israel's on the map. I wouldn't date it too much later than that, since it still shows Germany united.
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #4
        Sure its pre-WW2? Cuz I see Israel listed...

        (edit... damn you! You beat me to it!)

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        • #5
          It can't be that old, its not in black and white.
          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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          • #6
            The curious think is that Romania seems to have it's pre-WWII borders.
            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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            • #7
              I got a globe that is from the 1880s... let me find it... it has French possessions of Africa on it. I think it was just after Italy unified...
              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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              • #8
                Clue number 1.

                Leningrad vs. St. Petersburg vs. Petrograd.

                The map is post WW 1, post October Revolution.

                Clue number 2.

                Existence of Poland, but not with Polish Corridor:

                After WW 2.

                Clue number 3:

                Existence of Yugoslavia.

                Post WW2, before 1992.

                Clue number 4:

                Unified Germany,

                After 1988.

                My guess is that the globe dates to 1989.

                Don't call the antique roadshow just yet.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                  The curious think is that Romania seems to have it's pre-WWII borders.
                  It looks like every country has a bit of artistic licence as to its shape and size on that globe.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #10
                    You're missing all the clues in Africa, Obiwan.
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #11
                      Re: Date my Globe!

                      No way, dude! What kind of sicko are you, anyway?
                      urgh.NSFW

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                      • #12
                        Finland has its pre-WW2 borders, with Viipuri etc attached. But then, the German-Polish border cannot be anything but post-WW2. Not to mention Israel.

                        This globe contradicts itself.
                        Poor silly humans. A temporarily stable pattern of matter and energy stumbles upon self-cognizance for a moment, and suddenly it thinks the whole universe was created for its benefit. -- mbelleroff

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                        • #13
                          I can't even see Africa. It's all black!
                          Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                          "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
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                          • #14
                            Yeah, I was going to say this looked to be 1990ish. Worth maybe, $2-3?
                            Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by obiwan18
                              I can't even see Africa. It's all black!
                              Racist!
                              Tutto nel mondo è burla

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