Postal – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:13:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Postal – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Maps on Stamps https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/01/maps-on-stamps/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:13:00 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1811902 More]]> Except for a couple of posts here and there, I really haven’t focused on the phenomenon of maps on postage stamps. But it’s very much a thing, and has been for some time: the CartoPhilatelic Society has been around since 1955. And there are a lot of examples of stamps with maps on them: the Society’s checklist has 41,300 entries, and there are 17,906 examples on the searchable database that is Gilad’s Maps on Stamps. Strange Maps gives the subject a proper writeup, grouping stamps by several themes.

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A high-quality scan of a 1967 map of Paris’s pneumatic tube network, which remained in service until 1984. [via]

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