DESCRIPTION: Antique nautical chart issued in 1902 covers from Thomaston, Maine southwestward along the St. George River past St. George, Maine and Tennant Harbor, the Marshall Point Lighthouse to Burnt Island and from a line drawn through those areas to the east, covering the island-strewn Maine Atlantic coast. Coastal areas covered by this old sea chart encompass Two Bush Channel and these islands: Rackliff's, Andrew's, Hewell's, Hooper's, Metlinik, Ash, Sheep, Grafton, Pleasant, Sprucehead, Whitehead, Munroe, and Alleni Islands.
Other points of interest noted on this old chart include South Thomaston, Friendship and Port Clyde, Maine; Fort St. George, Maple Juice Cove, Hart's Neck, Mosquito Head, Cutter's Nubble, Old Woman Ledge, Owl's Head Light, and Fog's Hill.
Date of first publication was 1873. This antique chart bears a stamp at the bottom in purple ink that identifies this edition as later: "Aids to navigation corrected with information received Jul 13, 1902."
This chart was printed from an electrotype copy of the original hand-engraved copper plate, a process the U.S. Coast Survey adopted around 1850. As a soft medium, copper plates could only withstand print runs of perhaps 200 copies before the plates wore down. To enable larger print runs, a mold of the original plate was created in wax or another soft medium. Then, using an electro-chemical processs ( electrotyping ), the mold was coated with a metal layer, typically copper. Printers were then able to produce output from the new electrotype copper copy, while preserving the original. This print run is electroype copy number 2. Chart number 312. Price when issued 25 cents.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1902
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: St. George River
CONDITION: Fair.
Browned and slightly wrinkled from usage and sunlight. Small scattered stains at bottom left quadrant and top left. Wide margins with small repaired tears , none past the neatline. Chunk missing from margin at extreme left top corner, outside the neatline and will not show when matted.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 26
" x
37 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $225
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