1423 - Globes & Astronomy - Globe by Carl Luther. Berlin, circa 1925, labeled "Columbus Volksglobus, Edited by C. Luther, Columbus-Verlag G.m.b.H., Berlin-Lichterfelde”; the globe consists of a papier-mâché sphere covered with 12 color-lithographed paper segments, a brass half-meridian with 2 x 90-degree graduations, mounted on a turned wooden base. Diameter: approx. 19 cm. Height: approx. 39 cm.

Globes & Astronomy - Globe by Carl Luther. Berlin, circa 1925, labeled "Columbus Volksglobus, Edited by C. Luther, Columbus-Verlag G.m.b.H., Berlin-Lichterfelde”; the globe consists of a papier-mâché sphere covered with 12 color-lithographed paper segments, a brass half-meridian with 2 x 90-degree graduations, mounted on a turned wooden base. Diameter: approx. 19 cm. Height: approx. 39 cm. Carl Luther, a cartographer at the Prussian War Ministry from 1900 and at the Reich Naval Office in Berlin from 1933, took over as head of cartography at Columbus-Verlag in the early 1920s. See also: Lehmann, R., *Berliner Globenhersteller 1790–1970*, 2010, p. 84 ff. — A Carl Luther terrestrial globe. Berlin, c. 1925, signed “Columbus Volksglobus, edited by C. Luther, Columbus-Verlag G.m.b.H., Berlin-Lichterfelde,” 12 chromolithographed globe gores mounted on a cardboard sphere, brass meridian, mounted on a turned wooden stand. Diameter ca. 19 cm, height ca. 39 cm.