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Value set at more than $600K
It began with a stunning discovery last year in the attic of a Scottish estate: a previously unknown, 312 year-old hand-drawn map of Canada by John Thornton, one of the leading cartographers of 17th-century Europe.
Expected to sell at a U.K auction in January for up to $120,000, the lost-and-found treasure became the focus of a fierce bidding war involving collectors and museums from around the world, including Manitoba’s provincial archives, that ended with the map’s purchase by a British rare-books dealer for close to $320,000. Now, the buzz-worthy Thornton map of 1699 is for sale again this weekend at a vintage map fair in Florida, this time for more than $600,000.
And in keeping with the map’s ballooning price, new research suggests the artifact’s historical value is far greater than originally understood. The dust-covered relic rescued from behind a water tank in Scotland appears to represent the landmark moment in Canada’s past when rival French and English empires first attempted to formally divide the country.
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New York
PO Box 329, Larchmont, NY, USA
Opening hours, London Gallery
Monday to Friday: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday: by appointment
Closed: all bank holidays and 1-31 August
Opening hours, New York
By appointment only