First Map Stamp ?

I suppose it comes down to the answer to the question--Is a globe a map? I am sure that I don't know. It seems such a simple question, but on second and third thoughts, problems come in.

The globe on the Liberian stamp does have lines of latitude and longitude and seems to be a fairly accurate representation. So is it a map? I suppose I would vote that it is a map.

Well, if a globe is a map


Boyd's City Express, New York EDU June 29, 1844

Edit: Scott 20L1

A globe IS a map:

http://geography.about.com/od/under...atisamap.htm

Russ wins!

How about, "Russ is in the lead."

I'm in agreement that a globe is a map, but are we sure that Russ has pictured a "stamp" (in the way that we all mean it when we say "first _______ to appear on a stamp")?

I may show my ignorance concerning this topic (I don't have a Scott catalogue that covers this area prior to the Canal Zone issues) but was there not a 1878 Columbia Department of Panama issue with a map on it that showed up on modern "stamp on stamp" issue that also had the green 1c depicted here on it. Hoping I'm not confusing the issue I remain....

Actually you are correct Cynical. I just checked my Scotts and the first stamp of Colombia (#1) appears to have a map of the country between the two ships. I don't have an image.

Here's a link to the 1878s used as bisects in 1881 and the images are large enough to make out a small map.

http://si-pddr.si.edu/jspui/bitstre...OPACARTA.pdf

Can the globe on the local which Russ postes be considered a map? It seems to be a fictional globe, since I don't recognize any part of the earth which that globe represents. Is a fictional globe (or to be charitable, representational globe) a map? On the other hand, I have seen many maps purporting to be of fictional places. ARRRGH

While I'm still not prepared to concede that a globe is a map (my New American Webster Handy College Dictionary defines a globe as "a sphere bearing a map of the earth", and relegate our poor Canadian 1898 further down the map list ), I am happy to offer this Canadian 1957 UPU Congress stamp as a white blue flag.

The question about whether a stylized representation of a globe/map constitutes a depiction of a map is a good one. If I maintained a maps-on-stamps topical collection, I guess I might have to think about a page of "forerunners."

Questions like these are why we always have to remember, "It's your collection; do what you wish." (And I don't mean to marginalize the discussion...the process is interesting.)

I just picked this up recently. I am very happy I finally have a Panama number one.