-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? REPORT IT! Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:32:49 -0600 From: [log in to unmask] To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> Gilbert Bland is the main character in a non-fiction book entitled _The island of lost maps : a true story of cartographic crime_ by Miles Harvey published in 2000. Angie -------- 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