Dear all
Does any one know where I can find out more about John Brion, a geographical
modeller and constructor of relief maps. Is there a good bibliographical
reference book to cartographers which might include him?
I have an advert which gives a description of different types of services he
offers. That is stuck on the back an 1858 1" raised relief map of the
Environs of Brighton.
However I am interested in finding out when he was born, died and what other
things he worked on. I know that some of work was published by Edward
Stanford.
On a slightly related note, does any one know how easy it would be to remove
nicotine stains from a hand coloured wooden relief map? The 1" map of
Brighton was probably hanging in a pub for many years, which is how it
aquired the nicotine stains. It would be interesting to have them removed,
but not at the expense of the original cartographic work.
Kind regards
Timothy Langner
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