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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]
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>>
>> 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
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>> Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon.
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>> http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
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>> ----- 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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