Unusual/Rare Ordnance Survey Maps

[peteb]

I am aware that most old OS maps are fairly common, even some early editions. Indeed most charity shops have them for £1-2.

However I was thinking there must be some maps of remote locations which only probably sold a couple of dozen.

I've got a few 1970s 1:25000 maps of some really obscure bits of Scotland. One has just a few tiny islets.

Is there such a thing as a valuation guide to rarer OS maps or do I need to simply test the market via eBay?

 

[dangie]

…Is there such a thing as a valuation guide to rarer OS maps or do I need to simply test the market via eBay?

Are you thinking about selling or buying?

 

[Doctor Fegg]

The Charles Close Society is what you need. They have a list of map dealers - I don’t know how many of them put stocklists online these days but certainly when I was collecting the whole New Popular Edition 20 years ago, many of them did.

 

[peteb]

Are you thinking about selling or buying?

Selling

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Think there was a slow news day story, five or six years ago, that claimed that, of all the modern day OS maps, the 1:25000 scale Explorer map number 440, which covers Glen Cassley and Glen Oykel in North Scotland, was at the time, the slowest selling.

Of the 1:50000 scale Landranger maps, reckon that number 11, which covers Thurso and Dunbeath, can't sell many; much of the mapped area is already covered by overlapping adjacent maps!

 

[MP33]

I sold someone a piece of sandpaper. I told them that it was a Map of the Sahara Desert.

 

[peteb]

Think there was a slow news day story, five or six years ago, that claimed that, of all the modern day OS maps, the 1:25000 scale Explorer map number 440, which covers Glen Cassley and Glen Oykel in North Scotland, was at the time, the slowest selling.

Of the 1:50000 scale Landranger maps, reckon that number 11, which covers Thurso and Dunbeath, can't sell many; much of the mapped area is already covered by overlapping adjacent maps!

I'm interested to know how many of the 1:25000 (old 2.5 inches to the mile) maps the OS printed.

Clearly there's going to be a limited market for a sheet covering a rocky bit of coast and islets far from any public road, unless it's on a really well established footpath/mountaineering/kayaking route.

I wonder if the OS kept a record of how many copies of each map were printed?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I wonder if the OS kept a record of how many copies of each map were printed?

Perhaps more relevant is just how many actually got sold?!