Need help with a map

[Turbo21]

I picked up this map at goodwill today for $4

Says it's a historical of Nantucket from 1869

I can't tell if it's a repro or not. Taking the back of the frame off and looking at the paper and man does it look old. Doesn't look like any modern port I have seen and I used to be a service manager for a copier company for 12 years so I have seen a lot of paper lol


I have found one site that has one for $5400


https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/w...gclid=CNnUvcDMi9QCFZiEswoddSEOgQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

but it has no color. I can not find another color one any where. What do you think can someone help me out a price on this map?

 

[Older The Better]

just my two cents by far no expert but if the map was printed in 1869 or any time around that I don't know why you would label it "historical" but doesn't mean it still isn't old

 

[Turbo21]

just my two cents by far no expert but if the map was printed in 1869 or any time around that I don't know why you would label it "historical" but doesn't mean it still isn't old

By historical it means the history of Nantucket from the time it was settled until 1869. It lists all major events from 1602 from 1869

 

[Jordun]

I'm guessing there probly isn't a huggggge market for conterfit Nantucket historical maps.
I'd say take a close look at the printing and the paper normally the best tell for age.

Also my go to......... google the crap out of the maps title ......if you find 1500 of them online vs zero online you should have a pretty good idea if it's worth looking into professionally.

If there is copys of it out there you can bet others have google it.

(Update) I just did a quick Google search and I can't find a colour version anywhere ethier I would tottally suggest taking it into a pro : )

 

[Mackaydon]

The (colorless) one selling for $5,400 is probably the original; the color renditions are probably later copies--IMO.
The map is truly 'historic' based on the information the map provides; including the location of oid settlements, Indian burial grounds and whaling stations.
Don........

 

[cw0909]

is that a bleed through in the img of the back
does look like it was ever wet

the 1 you sited: DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1886
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/w...gclid=CNnUvcDMi9QCFZiEswoddSEOgQ&gclsrc=aw.ds


Date: c. 1882
Origin: Published in Boston
Antiques Council - M-11799 - Scarce map of Nantucket Island c. 1882

Creator Ewer, Ferdinand C. (Ferdinand Cartwright), 1826-188Created/Published[S.l. : s.n.], 1869
Historical map of Nantucket [cartographic material]

edit
more info, maybe contact them to see when your map was done

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:9s161937h

reduced version
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:z029pm74c


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[Rawhide]

I love it. Lived in Rhode Island a few years. You may want to get some professional help.

 

[DCMatt]

You may want to get some professional help.

This is what most of us on Tnet need.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I just want to remind you that you or I could put any price I want on a map. We could ask $10,000. It doesnt mean much. You need to search those that actually sold or that have bids on them.

 

[Turbo21]

Speaking of professional help. Where should I go ? Antique stores?

 

[nhbenz]

Does yours have anything in the lower right, like this copy?: http://www.old-maps.com/ma/ma_Nantu...llsize/Nantucket_1869__LC_large_18-23_web.JPG
or anything else beneath the mat?

 

[Turbo21]

Does yours have anything in the lower right, like this copy?: http://www.old-maps.com/ma/ma_Nantu...llsize/Nantucket_1869__LC_large_18-23_web.JPG
or anything else beneath the mat?

No other markings on the front or back

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I notice it mentions the white population and the Indian population but why doesn't it mention the historic "Negro" or "slave" population of Nantucket?

https://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNgoode-african.htm

 

[Turbo21]

I notice it mentions the white population and the Indian population but why doesn't it mention the historic "Negro" or "slave" population of Nantucket?

https://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNgoode-african.htm

Maybe because at the time they were considered property and not people Just a guess

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Did you find any of these maps that sold?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Your photo may not be good enough for anyone here to make a determination. It has a reflection and we cant read the print especially in the corners. There are many copies of this map. Here is one that even looks old. https://www.redbubble.com/people/br...ster&rbs=4a2caca6-3f4e-47bb-9e98-1f4fff65605a


EDIT: Actually its a modern copy made to look old.

 

[cw0909]

i noticed that the end date under 19th c, is 1886, on all the map links sited
what is the end date under 19th c, on your map

 

[cw0909]

i found the original map by Ewer, Ferdinand C. (Ferdinand Cartwright), 1826-1883, creator @
Harvard Map Collection digital maps. historical notes and lists of historical dates, nineteenth
centuries; latest date, 1865. so now you have to fig when yours was made and by what co.
JMO i think the type of paper will give you a date range

Historical map of Nantucket. 009532299; ; Harvard University Library; Harvard University

 

[Turbo21]

Did you find any of these maps that sold?

Not really. Have found some of the black and white versions. But not 1 colored version

 

[Turbo21]

i noticed that the end date under 19th c, is 1886, on all the map links sited
what is the end date under 19th c, on your map

End date is 1865 on my map