Edited sentence: "  After a year of research in which he consulted many experts, Missinne concluded the Hunt–Lenox Globe was a copper cast of the egg globe.A similar grapefruit-sized globe made from two halves of an ostrich egg was found in 2012 and dates from 1504.Stefaan Missinne, who analyzed the globe for the Washington Map Society journal Portolan, said it was "part of an important European collection for decades.The latest research published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in August 2018 confirmed it to be the oldest extant globe to show the New World.The ostrich egg globe is since 2018 internationally accepted as the Da Vinci Globe