Ed’s Map Collection: Ordnance Survey Explorer & Landranger Covers with blue spine lettering
Page last updated: 26 April 2012
Between January and March 2009 certain covers of OS 1:25 000 Explorer and 1:50 000 Landranger maps were printed with blue lettering on the Ordnance Survey logo on the cover spine. This was unintentional, apparently being the result of a design error. Before being rectified the error affected cover printings of at least six short cover format Explorer sheets and eighteen, probably nineteen, Landranger sheets.
The aim of this collection theme is to acquire a copy of each Explorer and Landranger cover bearing blue lettering on the Ordnance Survey logo on the cover spine, as printed in early 2009.
You can click on the image of a map to view its details.
Blue shaded maps are also part of the ‘Cirencester area’ collection.
Ed.
Prt. date/cop.
Map
Fmt
Condition
Notes
Sheet 170 - Abingdon, Wantage & Vale of White Horse
2009.01
3,900
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked on corners. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent condition.
Sheet 175 - Southend-on-Sea & Basildon
2009.01
2,100
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 208 - Bedford & St. Neots
2009.01
2,240
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 214 - Llanidloes & Newtown
2009.02
1,550
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Very Good
‘Active’ edition. Some creasing to bottom edge of cover and very minor scuffing to cover spine evident beneath lamination. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 215 - Newtown & Machynlleth
2009.02
1,280
PFS
Excellent
Cover and map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 304 - Darlington & Richmond
2009.01
1,750
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Very Good
‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges, some minor ‘bubbling’ of lamination on bottom edges of cover. Map in excellent condition.
Ed.
Prt. date/cop.
Map
Fmt
Condition
Notes
Sheet 16 - Lairg & Loch Shin
2009.02
1,540
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 19 - Gairloch & Ullapool
2009.02
2,070
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 56 - Loch Lomond & Inveraray
2009.02
4,500
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent condition.
Sheet 84 - Dumfries & Castle Douglas
2009.02
2,080
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 99 - Northallerton & Ripon
2009.02
500
Likely example but no copies yet documented. 500 copies printed, 04/02/2009.
Sheet 114 - Anglesey
2009.01
3,050
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
LFS
Excellent
‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent undamaged condition.
Sheet 115 - Snowdon
2009.01
4,000
PFS
Very Good
Cover slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 118 - Stoke-on-Trent & Macclesfield
2009.02
2,550
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges, and slightly scuffed. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 135 - Aberystwyth & Machynlleth
2009.01
2,080
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked on spine and on bottom edges of rear. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 137 - Church Stretton & Ludlow
2009.01
3,100
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased and knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 142 - Peterborough
2009.02
2,000
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 150 - Worcester & The Malverns
2009.03
2,580
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 165 - Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard
2009.02
3,180
PFS
Excellent
Cover and map in excellent undamaged condition.
Sheet 166 - Luton & Hertford
2009.02
2,080
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on right-hand side. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 174 - Newbury & Wantage
2009.03
2,500
PFS
Excellent
Cover virtually undamaged. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 177 - East London
2009.02
2,100
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased at edges and on corners. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 178 - Thames Estuary
2009.03
960
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 179 - Canterbury & East Kent
2009.02
4,100
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased on corners. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 182 - Weston-super-Mare
2009.02
2,700
PFS
Excellent
Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.