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To: Red Badger

Especially the one on the right:)

When I was sailing all charts looked like works of art to me. The coasting charts had detail of prominent buildings, vegetation or mountains along coastlines etc, all on quality paper. The paper started going down hill about the time the gaffiti like loran lines sprawled over the charts. The loran lines are gone but the quality and detail was still down.


7 posted on 12/23/2024 11:06:26 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

Th one on the Left was produced in 1606. Yet it appears to show Hudson’s Bay in What is now Canada. Hudson’s Bay wasn’t discovered until 1611...............


9 posted on 12/23/2024 11:11:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Cold Heart

There was a time when I hoped to buy an original antique map with one of those paintings on it of sea serpents and stuff.

Before I found out how hard to get something like that was that is.


25 posted on 12/23/2024 1:01:18 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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