“Just Old Maps” but not just any old maps.
These maps are very special to me as they belonged to a very special customer of mine.
I have dealt with this customer for over 25 years. When I came in to deal
with this customer we chat across his counter with a glass top under which these maps would lay.
I would take his order and the next time I was out I would sit it on this very counter for him.
I often looked at the maps and the places on them that I had been to or would like to visit,
and I knew they were old by some of the places on them that did not show up on newer maps.
I asked him if he ever was to get rid of them call me first and I would buy them..but please never pitch them out.
Well in 1995 my customer a very good friend also passed away and his son took over the business and I knew him very well also.
We did the same deals across the same counter over these very maps.
I also asked him the same thing could I buy the maps if he ever was going to get rid of them.
I also asked the shop foreman to keep me up to date on the maps if anything was going to change.
Well after 25 years of deals my customer calls the other night and asks if I still would like the maps?
Darn right I do and how much? I will bring cash, “no charge” he says.
So after 25 years and hundreds of deals over this counter I have these very special maps.
Yes to you they are just 43 year old maps but to me, 25 years of memories.
I also knew a man that worked for the Queen's Printers that made these maps.