| | Oldimprints.com: Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | This is a "survival map" or "escape map," one I believe to have been issued by the British Airforce; these light-weight silk maps were carried by military personnel with missions in enemy territory, each map containing information crucial to facilitating escape to friendly territory. |
 | | Map, hand colored, 15.5" x 12.5" including decorative border, overall time toning, light damp stain spot in lower margin outside map, and damp stain spot in right margin (map extends beyond decorative border at the point where this spot is). |
 | | This map may have been issued as a folding map (there are light fold marks in the map not repeated in the backing paper) which was trimmed to its border and glued onto a larger sheet, folded and bound into a book (the binding tab from the book is present on the verso). |
| www.oldimprints.com /maps/asia_1.htm (1843 words) |