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Auction archive: Lot number 574

WWII SECOND WORLD WAR US AIR FORCE MAPS OF CHINA

Two Day Antiques & Collectables Sale
3 Dec 2020 - 4 Dec 2020
Estimate
£60 - £80
ca. US$80 - US$107
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 574

WWII SECOND WORLD WAR US AIR FORCE MAPS OF CHINA

Two Day Antiques & Collectables Sale
3 Dec 2020 - 4 Dec 2020
Estimate
£60 - £80
ca. US$80 - US$107
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

US Air Force Maps of China from World War II and an escape map of southern China and northern Indochina from 1944:British Military Escape Map 1944. South-east Asia sheets 44 L and M. Two back-to-back escape maps on one folding silk map. Size 95 by 60 cm. Scale 1:100,000. Folds to pocket handkerchief size or smaller. Side L covers China (part of) and side M covers French Indo-China (part of). Maps are in colour with a colour-coded key to heights and a conventional key to features such as mountains, islands, railways, stations, ruins, post offices, roads etc. Heights are shown by contours. The area of southern China in map M includes Yunnan or Kunming. 555. May 1944. Yunnan China. Lake Ehr. A very mountainous region with extra military detail. Full colour 497. January 1944. Kaotung Mountain. Hunan China; 618. 1942. Hainan Island and the Gulf of Tonkin. South China; 494. 1942. Central China. Tung Ting lake, with Ichang & Changsha; 382. 1942. Hwang River with part of the Great Wall of China. 384. 1942. Wei River. North Central China. Includes Fengsiang and Hanchung. 385. 1942. Lo River area. Honan China. Includes Kaifeng.

Auction archive: Lot number 574
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2020 - 4 Dec 2020
Auction house:
East Bristol Auctions
Hanham Business Park 1
Memorial Road
Bristol, BS15 3JE
United Kingdom
info@eastbristol.co.uk
+44 (0)117 967 1000
Beschreibung:

US Air Force Maps of China from World War II and an escape map of southern China and northern Indochina from 1944:British Military Escape Map 1944. South-east Asia sheets 44 L and M. Two back-to-back escape maps on one folding silk map. Size 95 by 60 cm. Scale 1:100,000. Folds to pocket handkerchief size or smaller. Side L covers China (part of) and side M covers French Indo-China (part of). Maps are in colour with a colour-coded key to heights and a conventional key to features such as mountains, islands, railways, stations, ruins, post offices, roads etc. Heights are shown by contours. The area of southern China in map M includes Yunnan or Kunming. 555. May 1944. Yunnan China. Lake Ehr. A very mountainous region with extra military detail. Full colour 497. January 1944. Kaotung Mountain. Hunan China; 618. 1942. Hainan Island and the Gulf of Tonkin. South China; 494. 1942. Central China. Tung Ting lake, with Ichang & Changsha; 382. 1942. Hwang River with part of the Great Wall of China. 384. 1942. Wei River. North Central China. Includes Fengsiang and Hanchung. 385. 1942. Lo River area. Honan China. Includes Kaifeng.

Auction archive: Lot number 574
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2020 - 4 Dec 2020
Auction house:
East Bristol Auctions
Hanham Business Park 1
Memorial Road
Bristol, BS15 3JE
United Kingdom
info@eastbristol.co.uk
+44 (0)117 967 1000
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