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  2. 10 Types of Valuable Vintage Maps That Could Be Hiding in ...

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    Just ask this guy who bought the map for $50 at an estate sale in North Carolina, ... In 2015, one of these maps from 1668 sold for £68,500 (about $86,780) at auction.

  3. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the Public Land Survey System.. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling.

  4. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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    The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Cullman ...

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    This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]

  6. 9 Antique Items You Could Sell for Thousands of Dollars

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    A 2019 pristine copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for roughly $90,000 at auction. ... How To Start Investing In Real Estate - Even If You're Not Rich.

  7. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...

  8. Map collection - Wikipedia

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    A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility. Sometimes, map collections are combined with graphic sheets, manuscripts and rare prints in a single department.

  9. Tabula Peutingeriana - Wikipedia

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    Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...