BirminghamHistoric Map Mug
Birmingham Historic Map Mug
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- Printed to order in Britain
- Reproduced from the original in the National Library of Scotland
- Arrives with a card naming the sheet, the survey and the year
Birmingham shown through Bartholomew's distinctive Half-Inch mapping, reproduced as a mug.
What this map covers
The geographic coverage follows the exact product crop of Birmingham shown in the listing imagery.
About this map
This artwork is cropped from Sheet 18 · Birmingham, Leicester, 1903, focusing the original cartography around Birmingham rather than reproducing the complete historic sheet.
The Half-Inch series was designed to make a wide area useful to the traveller, showing how settlements, routes, and terrain fitted together rather than concentrating on property-level detail. Its 1:126,720 scale, two miles to the inch, sits between detailed local survey mapping and much smaller national maps.
Road information and coloured relief were deliberately prominent, giving these maps a clearer travelling-map character than denser large-scale survey sheets. Bartholomew drew on more detailed Ordnance Survey material, selecting and supplementing information for its own cartographic purpose; complete Half-Inch coverage of Great Britain was achieved in 1903. This particular source was published in 1903.
About the product
Made to order. Shipping is calculated at checkout.
- 11 oz · 229 × 95 mm print area
- white ceramic
- 11oz capacity
- straight-sided profile
- wraparound exterior print
- protective polished ceramic glaze
- dye-sublimation printing
- Dishwasher and microwave safe.
A note on map detail
The original map was printed at approximately 1:127,000. This artwork is reproduced at approximately 1:100,000, around 1.3× larger, making the original cartography and place names easier to see.
Historic map detail varies with product size and material. Use the listing close-ups as your guide to the exact crop and level of detail.
Map source
Historic map image: National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/
Cartography: John Bartholomew & Co.
About There & Then
There & Then brings archival cartography back into everyday use, creating pieces designed to be seen and lived with at home.
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