Abstract
The paper examines the production and distribution of Czech globes in the first half of the 20th century, with the exception of Jan Felkl & Son company. Alois Kreidl's Prague factory of teaching aids started to trade in globes in 1891.
Their price lists showed that the company did not have its own production, but only sold the products of Jan Felkl & Son and other foreign companies. However, Jan Kreidl became a shareholder and later director of the Logia company in Smíchov, Prague.
Logia started to produce Czech globes without author's name in 1925, but they resembled the products of a Berlin-based company called Columbus. The second edition was prepared by František Machát and the third edition by Josef Hrbek.
A globe called Kolumbus by F. Janata was also published in Smíchov.
Adolf Provazník's company in Brno published Czech school globes in 1934-1943. Two of them with a diameter of 32 cm and 21.3 cm have been preserved.
The smaller one contains censorship interventions in the map drawing during the Second World War. The publishing house of Ignác Buchsbaum from Moravská Ostrava produced globes from 1909 onwards.
He cooperated with the Columbus company. A globe with a diameter of 33 cm with national economic and transport-related content has been preserved.
The Falco Natural Science Laboratory, founded by Rudolf Váca, operated in Ostrava Mariánské Hory. Váca translated the German globes of Paul Räth from Leipzig into Czech.
His relief globe is the only three-dimensional representation of the Earth described in Czech at that time. A trade and transport globe with a diameter of 33 cm has also been preserved.
In 1909, the Viennese firm Freytag und Berndt published in Czech its patented school globe with a cap to demonstrate the illumination of the Earth. The influence of German publishers is clearly seen in the Czech globe production of the first half of the 20th century.