OT: A great map of the German colonies in 1914

spoon

Just got this map in the mail today: Africa, from Justus Perthes Taschen-Atlas, 1914. (bad images there, sorry!)

I like to pick up maps every now and then to go with my colonial coins and this one is perfect! This is the most attractive map of the African colonies I've come across yet. Great visual arrangement with the German colonies offset around the African continent (Sudwest-Afrika (Namibia), Togo and Kamerun on left and Ost-Afrika (Tanzania) on right with South Africa and lower Egypt (commercial areas)). It's a small little sucker, but will go well if I ever make a coin shelf kinda display. Might try to reimage once I get my scanner back.

OT.. but I like it so I thought I'd share

Anyone else collect maps?

cacheman

yes I do...primarily in atlas format though.

Askari

Those are hard to come by. I tried some time ago to get detailed German colonial maps, but was unsuccessful finding any I wanted. There's a 1914 German world atlas out there -- possibly by Justus Perthes -- that supposedly has what I want, but I haven't found it. There is also a German East Africa map executed a few years before the war that has great detailed info, but the only one I ever saw I was terribly outbid on.