France: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map Olin Dows 1933 woodcut and the patina is really

and the patina is really quite a beautiful thing

but I think it's still quite striking

others make by punching points through a gridded template

a few old creases along the blue band of the boat

this to me is an interesting example for how cleanly and expertly done it was (and it gave me an excuse to dig in a bit more to the history and varieties of staple repairs

France: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map Olin Dows 1933 woodcut and the patina is reallyI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These (this is one of five I am listing) I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these