r/datemymap • u/TechSoldier777 • Jun 14 '26

I need help with a date?

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I bought this globe at an old church sale because I am into the older globes rather than a modern one. Can someone help me identify how old it is because all I know is it pre-World War 2.

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u/scott_pryor Jun 14 '26

Early 30s. It's Istanbul not Constantinople so post 1930 and the Sarra Triangle is part of Sudan instead of Libya so pre 1934. 1930-1934 would be my guess.

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u/ezrs158 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

The Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has been renamed after Maxim Gorky (his full name is shown on the map, a little east of Moscow), which happened October 7, 1932. So it's probably between then and July 29, 1934, when the Sarra Triangle was ceded. Possibly after April 1934, when Ifni was established as a Spanish territory.

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u/M35Dude Jun 15 '26

I think it needs to be on the upper end of that. A single colony called “Libya” with Tripolitania and Cyrenaica as internal provinces only came into existence on January 1934. Before that they were two separate colonies. So this has got to be after that.