CRAM TERRESTRIAL 12" WORLD GLOBE CAST IRON MERIDIAN & WOOD BASE IN GOOD ESTATE CONDITION. It dates to the 1930's- 1940's. There is some wear to the globe and wood base. There is a slight separation to the globe. Turn screw toward bottom loosens to rotate the meridian. Measures 17 1/2" high and 14" wide. The wood base diameter is 7 1/2" wide.
Persia on globe - Name changed to Iran in 1935.
Japan invades Manchuria in 1931 and renames it Manchukou - Both names on globe.
Vietnam was known as French Indo China prior to 1949