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mason.jordan
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2d ago
Spent 9 hours last Saturday trying to find a town called 'Pleasant Gap' on an 1847 map, turned out it was just a coffee stain
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river_fox18
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3d ago
Vent: I thought the 'Mercator is hiding a fake island' guy at the flea market was nuts until I found it on an 1892 German school atlas
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aaron_gonzalez
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6d ago
Hot take: the 1747 map of my hometown shows a street that doesn't exist anymore
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zaraharris
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7d ago
Dropped $85 on a fake 1850s county map at an estate sale in Dayton, learned my lesson the hard way
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maxpalmer
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10d ago
I finally found the missing island from my 1748 map and it took 11 months
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anthony_jackson
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11d ago
Vent: my 1911 Baedeker map of Belgium fell apart mid road trip and I taped it back together wrong
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michaelw26
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11d ago
An older guy at a flea market in Toledo showed me how to date a map by the paper watermark, and it blew my mind
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stella_roberts
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13d ago
PSA: Stop trusting the big lake on the 1857 Mitchell map
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aaron_gonzalez
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13d ago
Just figured out why my 1890s Germany map never lined up with modern borders
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skylerw87
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13d ago
I finally stopped trusting the 1650 Blaeu map of the Caspian Sea and I think the portolan charts were righter all along
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jesse988
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14d ago
Just found a town on my 1892 Pennsylvania atlas that doesn't exist anymore, and the county clerk's advice actually worked
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karen_shah56
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14d ago
I thought the map dealer at the Portland antique show was pulling my leg about a 1590s atlas page
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murray.nathan
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14d ago
Dropped $65 on a "rare 1700s sea chart" at an estate sale in Annapolis, turns out it's a 1970s restaurant menu reprint
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zaraharris
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17d ago
The archivist in Lisbon told me to stop tracing borders in pen when I got a 1743 map wrong
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eva_gibson
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17d ago
Serious question, I used to say the distorted coastlines on old maps were just sloppy work, then a 1794 chart of the Chesapeake changed my mind
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