This rare globe was expensive as a small car in the Fifties and Sixties. But instead of using a contemporary design from the Fifties, the publisher Karlheinz Wagner choose a German Art Deco base designed in the Thirties.
The contemporary Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauer had one in his private dining room.
Literature: Mohre, Jan, Rund um den Globus, Bibliographile Edition, Wien, 2008.
