9th Sep, 2021 12:00

Books, Photographs & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 61
 

Collection of WWII Home Guard Maps

An unusual collection of maps with two titled ‘ESSENTIAL TRAFFIC ROUTES QUARRIES AND DUMPS OF ROADSTONE’ and two titled DORSET & PARTS OF WILTS, HANTS, DEVON & SOMERSET, CLASSIFIED RODS ESSENTIAL TRAFFIC ROUTES QUARRIES AND DUMPS OF ROADSTONE, with all maps trimmed at the bottom but one with legible label which reads ‘516th Field Survey Company R.E. October 1940

Note: these maps were believed to have been used by the home guard to block essential and main roads with stones should the Nazis have invaded.

Sold for £43

Result plus buyers premium


 

An unusual collection of maps with two titled ‘ESSENTIAL TRAFFIC ROUTES QUARRIES AND DUMPS OF ROADSTONE’ and two titled DORSET & PARTS OF WILTS, HANTS, DEVON & SOMERSET, CLASSIFIED RODS ESSENTIAL TRAFFIC ROUTES QUARRIES AND DUMPS OF ROADSTONE, with all maps trimmed at the bottom but one with legible label which reads ‘516th Field Survey Company R.E. October 1940

Note: these maps were believed to have been used by the home guard to block essential and main roads with stones should the Nazis have invaded.

Auction: Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021

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