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Is Poland still present on your globe? Is Danzig still Polish territory? How about the Baltic states? Are they still independent? Is Albania the same colour as Italy? Where is the border between the Soviet Union and Romania? Is Slovakia on the map?

I have a wonderful globe from the same period myself, made in Berlin between April and September 1939.

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* Poland exists (but is shifted eastwards), Danzig is Polish. (>1920)

* Bessarabia is part of Romania (<1940)

* Baltic states appear without SSR suffix, but then again, nothing carries an SSR suffix on this globe - though there is a USSR.

* Istria is to Austria (<1919)

* Czechoslovakia is on the map as one state ( >1918 )

* Albania appears to be a state, it has a different color from Italy. (probably < 1939).

Thanks for the hints. It is most likely an interbellum globe, but the Istria thing is bothersome. Maybe I should take a picture.

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