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The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches,
​increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Rossig Educational Chart: Africa!

7/14/2016

 
This wheel is in really good shape and is also fantastic! Only 33 countries! Not only are the names different, so are the borders. I'm usually able to identify all of Africa's countries on an unlabeled map. Not so with this one. Rio de Oro? Get out!

​From the diamond mines of the Union of South Africa to the vast wax plantations of Port Guinea and on to the rich resin deposits of British Somaliland, so much has changed since 1931. I wonder how many wheels Rossig would have had to produce for Africa had it remained in business?

At least I can still find Libia.

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