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.

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Blue shaded maps are also part of the ‘Cirencester area’ collection.

Ordnance Survey 1:25 000 Explorer Series - Covers with blue spine lettering (2009)

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Prt. date/cop.

Map

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Condition

Notes
Sheet 170 - Abingdon, Wantage & Vale of White Horse
A2 2009.01 3,900 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked on corners. Map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent condition.
Sheet 175 - Southend-on-Sea & Basildon
A2 2009.01 2,100 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 208 - Bedford & St. Neots
A2 2009.01 2,240 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 214 - Llanidloes & Newtown
A2 2009.02 1,550 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image 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
A1/ 2009.02 1,280 Map image PFS Excellent Cover and map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 304 - Darlington & Richmond
A2 2009.01 1,750 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image 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.

Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 Landranger Series - Covers with blue spine lettering (2009)

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Prt. date/cop.

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Condition

Notes
Sheet 16 - Lairg & Loch Shin
B2 2009.02 1,540 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 19 - Gairloch & Ullapool
C1 2009.02 2,070 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 56 - Loch Lomond & Inveraray
C2 2009.02 4,500 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent condition.
Sheet 84 - Dumfries & Castle Douglas
B3 2009.02 2,080 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 99 - Northallerton & Ripon
C1// 2009.02 500 Not in Collection Likely example but no copies yet documented.
500 copies printed, 04/02/2009.
Sheet 114 - Anglesey
B4// 2009.01 3,050 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Map image LFS Excellent ‘Active’ edition. Cover and map in excellent undamaged condition.
Sheet 115 - Snowdon
C2/ 2009.01 4,000 Map image PFS Very Good Cover slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 118 - Stoke-on-Trent & Macclesfield
C4 2009.02 2,550 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges, and slightly scuffed. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 135 - Aberystwyth & Machynlleth
C1 2009.01 2,080 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked on spine and on bottom edges of rear. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 137 - Church Stretton & Ludlow
B2 2009.01 3,100 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased and knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 142 - Peterborough
D1 2009.02 2,000 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked and creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 150 - Worcester & The Malverns
D/ 2009.03 2,580 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly knocked at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 165 - Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard
D1/ 2009.02 3,180 Map image PFS Excellent Cover and map in excellent undamaged condition.
Sheet 166 - Luton & Hertford
C3 2009.02 2,080 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on right-hand side. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 174 - Newbury & Wantage
D1 2009.03 2,500 Map image PFS Excellent Cover virtually undamaged. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 177 - East London
E3 2009.02 2,100 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased at edges and on corners. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 178 - Thames Estuary
D3 2009.03 960 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 179 - Canterbury & East Kent
D2/ 2009.02 4,100 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased on corners. Map in excellent condition.
Sheet 182 - Weston-super-Mare
C2 2009.02 2,700 Map image PFS Excellent Cover very slightly creased at edges. Map in excellent condition.