Hello Map Enthusiasts!
I was looking through old boxes from my childhood and found my grandfather’s old globe. I recall each of us using it to look at different countries and learn where they all are. When I opened up the box now, more than a decade after his passing, I decided I wanted to know more about it.
The label says that it is a Cram Imperial Globe, and I looked up how to date the globe based on which countries are in existence on it. I determined that this globe must have been made between May 1990 and October 1990 because it has a unified Yemen on it, but still has East and West Germany on it.
It’s in pretty decent shape for its age I think. There are spots where I think grandpa had to tape the equator back on it haha
I looked up how to date the globe based on which countries are in existence on it.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1688/
Flow chart checks out,
of Yemens + # of Germanies) = three
Update! I did miss it, but I looked and it has the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, and a few other things that tell me that it is at least post 1986, right?
Yougoslavia and East Germany didn’t exist past 1990 if that helps.
I don’t know enough to determine that :) At least post-1979, as that’s when the Marshall Islands became a country.
Oh did I miss it?? I’ll have to go look again!
That’s pretty awesome! My grandfather had a globe I used a few times that had the USSR and Palestine on it.
