1899 Daily Map Antique Map South Africa 2nd Boer War Handkerchief R Kipling Poem Balkans 9 million square kilometres

9 million square kilometres

spending long hours in the Map Room of the British Museum

and then be gone

a panoramic birds eye view of the St Lawrence River from Niagara Falls to the city of Quebec was drawn by Alfred Waud and published in c1866

Plate size: - 20in x 15 1/4in (510mm x 390mm)

1899 Daily Map Antique Map South Africa 2nd Boer War Handkerchief R Kipling Poem Balkans 9 million square kilometresTitle : The Absent Minded Beggar. South African Republic Ref #: 93380 Size: 18in x 17in (465mm x 435mm) Date : 1899 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This scarce item of ephemera, an original printed linen antique handkerchief, with a map of The South African Republic, was published in 1899 by the Daily Mail to raise funds for the Soldiers Families Fund, after the outbreak of the Second Boer War (1899 1902), the first charitable effort for a