This rather fine coffee table, which used to belong to my father, depicts the River Thames all the way from source to mouth. The river has been carved into the table and then painted silver, with both ends then wrapping around the side of the table. I’m not sure who […]
Dan
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Dear followers. The Mappery team have been reflecting on some of the content we have posted recently. We’re concerned that cartography is being commercially exploited in some sectors (particularly the drinks industry) with the creation of entirely fictitious maps to promote a brand. We think this is wrong and is […]
Happy Leap Day! “Who knew that shallots were mini topo maps” posted Amanda Huber with quite some leap of the imagination!
Some impressive maps which look like they are marble on the floor of @paleisamsterdam, originally posted by Barry Ruderman from Raremaps.com
Ken posted this bottle of Line39 named after the 39th parallel and claiming to be “wine without parallel” (contains sulphites). Hmm.
Kris from the Boston Map Society found this map whilst researching for a book on Drink Maps in Victorian Britain. I knew this book of evidence taken in 1897 for the Royal Commission on Licensing Laws would be a goldmine of information for my research on Drink Maps, but I […]
Barry Ruderman form Raremaps.com posted this map in the wild on one of the glass houses at Kew Gardens during the Orchid Festival last year. The Wallace Line is a boundary line drawn by Alfred Wallace an English biologist in 1859 that separates the biogeographical regions of Australia and Southeast […]
