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Mr. Duncker: Actually there is a substantial copying industry in THIS period. One of the common traits of these forgeries is the addition of a date (sometimes with a city or the name of the maker of the original map). They come on laid paper and are either hand-colored or possibly printed color that is neither “process color” nor xerographic. In other words, they are not obvious fakes. They also have plate marks, but generally too large to be the original plates. I have handled these modern forgeries, and they come up with distressing frequency now on eBay, for example. What leads you to conclude that your map is apparently 18th century, rather than modern? Please see Tony Cambpell’s excellent page here: http://www.maphistory.info/fakesnotes.html Regards, — daan Strebe On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > > I recently purchased a world map which is a near copy of the world map nr. > 265 (The Mapping of the World, R. Shirley). Apart from the two centrally > located figures and the fact that the right cartouche states ‘Amstelodami > 1750’, it is apparent that it is a 18th century copy of the > Geelkercken-Hondius world map. My question is whether this is an incidental > 18th century copy, or was there a substantial ‘copying’ industry in that > period ? > > Dieter Duncker > > > Antiquariaat Plantijn > Ginnekenmarkt 5 > 4835JC Breda > the Netherlands > http://www.plantijnmaps.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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