the da vinci globe was erroneously presented as a 19th-century scrimshaw and offered for sale in june 2012 at the imcos (international map collectors´ society) fair at the venue of the royal geographical society in london. the similarity of the da vinci globe, which used to be called the ostrich egg globe (oeg), with the lenox globe was confirmed in 2012 by the former president of the coronelli society, professor rudolf schmidt and confirmed by art expert archduke dr. géza von habsburg in 2013. in the same year, an article on this discovery entitled "a newly discovered early sixteenth-century globe engraved on an ostrich egg. the earliest surviving globe showing the new world" was published. this discovery was made public by the washington post. on april 5, 2014, professor dr. carlo pedretti, a leading italian leonardo da vinci expert, inspected the research on this globe and congratulated the researcher for his leonardo studies. on october 1, 2017, the results of the many years of research on the da vinci globe were presented at an international imcos symposium in hamburg. this was followed by a lecture for the members of the austrian society for the history of science (ögw) at the archive of the university of vienna in april 2018, a lecture at the ishmap conference in june 2018, a presentation at the international cartography conference at the bodleian library of the university of oxford in september 2018, and a lecture on april 3rd, 2019 at the university of vienna.