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Livres anciens et modernes

Eastern Telegraph Company.

Wooden map page turner.

London, Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., [1894].,

850,00 €

Inlibris Antiquariat

(Wien, Autriche)

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Détails

Auteur
Eastern Telegraph Company.
Éditeurs
London, Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., [1894].
Thème
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Langues
Anglais

Description

Varnished wood. 335 x 35 mm. Maps printed on both sides, with calendar for 1894 in gold on black on both sides of the finial. This desk accessory, designed for use as a map page turner or letter opener/paper knife, was a promotional item for The Eastern Telegraph Company Limited and The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Limited. Based in London, these companies were part of a network creating communication routes around the UK and across the Atlantic in the late 1800s . The blade of this wooden object is decorated with varnished sections of a world map, including Australia, with red lines indicating international land and sea telegraph lines (Description of a similar example in the Queensland Museum, Registration no. H47766). - In very good condition.
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