This fine CARTOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITY is a scrimshawed globe made from the two rounded ends of an Ostrich egg. The eggs are notoriously hard which enable finer detail than some surfaces allow. The representation of the globe is curious and cannot be traced to any one particular map. It post dates the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 but only shows South America, not North America. A curious land mass appears in the southern Indian Ocean. The language used appears to be Spanish and Latin in origin. A fine curiosity.