Where is this from? Any idea on age?

[DriveHard]

I bought this for my bride for her birthday the other day. The owner had recently inherited it from a relative that had passed on, and IMHO was just trying to clean out some "junk". I bought it for a song. The more I look at it, the more I think it is something special...or just a fraud. Several of the countries and cities are not spelled correctly. They spelled Jamaica as "Jamaida" and Copenhagen as "Kobenhavn"...is this due to it being just extremely old, or is it from another country?

 

[Malo83]

Regardless, beautiful, hang on to it.

 

[skyactiv]

You can get a good ballpark idea as country territories change over time.

 

[Hall]

It's not that old. They show "Belarus" which was a former Soviet state and not typically shown separately. Same with Lithuania, etc.

 

[Kamele0N]

Its post 1991...since Yugoslavia is divided already

Kobehaven...Kfjev ......hmmmm....different language....Watsz?ava...LoL

 

[Pelican]

I remember them, some of them opend up in the middle and were used as bars with bottles inside.

 

[Kamele0N]

When I put "Watszava" into google......I got Czech results.....

 

[Quattro Pete]

Kobehaven...Kfjev ......hmmmm....different language....Watsz?ava...LoL

Some of these look like bad spelling mistakes. I've never seen Kiev spelled 'Kfjev' or Warszawa spelled with a 't'.

 

[DriveHard]

Some of these look like bad spelling mistakes. I've never seen Kiev spelled 'Kfjev' or Warszawa spelled with a 't'.

exactly what makes me think it is from another country...you know not everybody calls us the "United States of America"

 

[Quattro Pete]

exactly what makes me think it is from another country...you know not everybody calls us the "United States of America"

What I'm saying is that regardless what country this is from, some of these are just spelled with mistakes. I know of no language that would use that spelling, but maybe one exists?

 

[DriveHard]

When I google the names they always seem to come up with the correct spelling...so it isn't like they are just random errors

 

[Quattro Pete]

When I google the names they always seem to come up with the correct spelling...so it isn't like they are just random errors

When I search Kfjev, google thinks I misspelled Kiev, and google is right, IMO. And there is no such thing as Watszawa either.

 

[OVERKILL]

There are multiple fonts going on there too...

 

[Kamele0N]

When I search Kfjev, google thinks I misspelled Kiev, and google is right, IMO.

Could be that one was directly translating those names from Cyrillic

Copy of an original (or another bad copy)

 

[Quattro Pete]

Could be that one was directly translating those names from Cyrillic

With mistakes, yes.

I've studied cyrillic. Kiev in cyrillic is Ки́їв. Letter 'F' in cyrillic is ф, and it is nowhere to be found in Ки́їв.

Regardless, it's a beautiful piece.

 

[Leo99]

It's interesting. The countries are very rough. Just sort of blocked in. Very pretty, though. Does it have New Zealand?

 

[Kamele0N]

Yeah....show us more....Russian satelite countries....

 

[Kamele0N]

Maybe...just maybe....?

English translations out of Greek cyrillic?

Athinai - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

• Athinai can refer to

• The English transliteration of Αθήναι [aˈθine], a form of the Greek name for the city of Athens.

EDIT: tested it......its not!

 

[JT20]

It's from the mall, from the 90s ?

There was a store, used to sell globes and science projects. Awesome store

Incredible Universe, or I forget...

EDIT: Maybe it's not.

Maybe Poland.. ?

 

[Hall]

When I google the names they always seem to come up with the correct spelling...so it isn't like they are just random errors

No telling why different countries are spelled wrong. It's not like the names are in Dutch or Croatian or Arabic because Google wouldn't "correct" the search term spelling. It would explain what "Kfjev" is and so on.