TERRESTRIAL 8“ GLOBE ANTIQUE 1927 KITTINGER COMPANY, BUFFALO NY on STAND

15“ Tall 12“ Wide at Rim

See ALL photos for condition, spots on globe are from overhead lights. The globe is in Very Good Condition. The globe rotates easily and see photos for a few small missing graphic from astronomy Band. This is a beautiful Globe ready to use.

The terrestrial globe is surmounted by a metal hour ring within a calibrated metal meridian, the circular horizon band with paper calendar and zodiac and raised on a turned hardwood stand with four legs joined by a cross stretcher. This stand is the style of English Georgian globes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

This globe shows present-day St. Petersburg, Russia, as "Leningrad;" therefore, it was made after 1924. Further, it shows Constantinople rather than Istanbul, indicating a date of manufacture before 1930. In addition, it shows Central Australia as a separate territory, limiting its period from 1927 to 1931.

The Kittinger Company, Inc. sold a variety of table and floor globes, principally in the 1920’s thru 1940s. Kittinger is best known for its high quality home furniture in traditional styles. It manufactured globe stands, usually in the English Georgian taste, sold with globes made by the renowned British globe maker W. & A.K. Johnston, likely imported by A.J. Nystrom, Chicago. The company was established under the name The Kittinger Furniture Company in 1913 and still produces furniture today.