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Subject:        FW: Assocation copies of 20th-century maps ex-BBC Bush House
(auction)
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:05:00 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To:     'Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee'
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Angie,

Might this posting have some interest for ‘MAPS-L’ (if only for the fact
that the BBCbought and framed the NGS’s map of Asia)?

Francis

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*Subject:* Assocation copies of 20th-century maps ex-BBC Bush House
(auction)

At least one London-published newspaper yesterday (Wed.) featured the
impending auction of the ‘fixtures and fittings’ of the now redundant,
and vacated, BBC Bush House (Strand, London) – former home of the BBC’s
Empire, European, and multi-lingual World Services (wireless/radio).

The newspaper’s ‘Consumer Business Editor’ wrote that the auction lots
“include maps of India, Mexico, central Africaand the main theatre of
the Second World War”.  The auctioneers, Peaker Pattison
[www.ppauctions.com/sales/php], devote to such maps lot numbers 1008 –
1016 inclusive in what they call ‘BBC World Service Phase 1’ (‘Phase 2’
of the sale is expected to be in September). Many (most?) of the maps
are glass-framed, all measurements below (in cm) are taken from the
website.  Due to framing glass and photographer, not all maps can easily
be identified.  But Gerry L. may well snap them up, anyway . . .

1008: ‘[The] Main theatre of World War II’; 66 x 55

1009: ‘Map of Europe’; 140 x 100, [1990s?]

1010: ‘/The Daily Telegraph/ world map’; 106 x 78, [1950s?]

1011: ‘North-West Frontier’ [Svy of India/Pakistan?]; 61 x 88

1012: ‘Map of Qatar’; 62 x 100, [pictorial, in E & Ar]

1013: ‘Map of Asia’ [&] ‘Map of Poland’ [‘POLSKA’]; 85 x 98 & 82 x 93,
[Nat. Geogr. Soc. [&] Polish map-maker/publisher]

1014: ‘Map of India’, ‘Political map of India’, & ‘Map of West Bengal’;
82 x 100, 86 x 92, & [?]

1015: ‘Map of Mexico’ [&] ‘Map of South America’; 138 x 94 & 79 x 119;
[‘Estados Unidos de Mexico’ / INEGRI & [British publisher (?)]

1016: ‘Michelin map of Central Africa’ [&] ‘Michelin map of North East
Africa’; 101 x 145 & 122 x 1?? [of the usual 3-sheet 1:4M series?]

FH (ex-BBC)