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Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? REPORT IT!
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:42:32 -0500 (EST)
From: [log in to unmask]
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Gilbert Bland was the "posterboy" (i.e. thief) that was the subject of
Miles Harvey's "The Island of Lost Maps."
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? REPORT IT!
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:23:38 -0700
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I know nothing about Gilbert Bland other than a few emails here.
>
> Has someone called this person to verify the identity? Has someone
> notified Ebay? If this guy is a serious problem, call the cops.
> Don't wait for someone else to do it. Otherwise, all of this chatter
> is gossip and fearmongering.
>
> --cjjt
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again?
>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:32:15 -0500 (EST)
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>
>> Last mail address/phone off ebay:
>>
>> South East Numismatic Co.
>> P.O. Box 4455
>> North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597
>> United States
>> (843) 745-0378
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: RE: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again?
>>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:02:12 -0500
>>> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A quick search of Google on "scframers" shows someone selling maps
>>> under
>>> this name in eBay. They are listed in the Antiques section, most seem
>>> to
>>> be 19th century. There are pages from an A.C. Black atlas (United
>>> States,
>>> Mexico, among others), and an 1891 atlas of the Civil War. Various
>>> others
>>> from early and late 19th century.
>>>
>>> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
>>> Miami University Libraries
>>> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:28 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again?
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Fw: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again?
>>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:23:11 -0500
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>
>>> And have a depressing New Year everyone!
>>>
>>> see below
>>>
>>> Alice C. Hudson
>>> Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
>>> The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
>>> The New York Public Library
>>> 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
>>> New York, NY 10018-2788
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask], 212-930-0589, fax 212-930-0027
>>>
>>> Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon.
>>>
>>> http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded by ahudson/MHT/Nypl on 01/03/2008 01:20 PM -----
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject
>>> Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again?
>>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> It appears Gilbert Bland is stealing maps again.
>>>
>>> There is someone based in Maryland who is moving covertly about the
>>> east coast selling relatively low end maps from government
>>> publications via email under the name scframers. A dealer in
>>> Colorado got suspicious and did some background checking and has
>>> concluded that it is almost certainly Gil Bland. He is masked
>>> behind a series of aliases, wrong phone numbers and similar barriers
>>> to the discovery of his identity, but the case is fairly compelling:
>>>
>>> 1. Same type of material--primarly low priced government report
>>> type material, but periodically better material.
>>> 2. Working the east coast, but based in Maryland
>>> 3. Also pursuing Scripophily (hope I spelled that right!).
>>> 4. Mail order type operation.
>>> 5. At least one deep search caused an even more direct connection
>>> to Bland's prior business name.
>>>
>>> Not sure what the best approach is to tracking this down, but he's
>>> using the mail, shipping interstate, so its a Federal offense.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.
>>> 1298 Prospect, Suite 2C
>>> La Jolla, CA 92037
>>> (858) 551-8500
>>> (858) 551-8593 (fax)
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> www.raremaps.com
>>>
>
>
>
> Christopher J.J. Thiry
> Map Librarian
> Arthur Lakes Library
> Colorado School of Mines
> 1400 Illinois
> PO Box 4029
> Golden, CO 80401
>
> phone: 303-273-3697
> fax: 303-273-3199
> email: [log in to unmask]
> web: www.mines.edu/library/maproom
> web: www.mines.edu/fs_home/cthiry
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