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Lot 140

CURIOSITY MAP - WORLD WAR I
"Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!" With Note by Walter Emanuel... Designed and Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., G.W. Bacon & Co., 1914

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CURIOSITY MAP - WORLD WAR I

"Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!" With Note by Walter Emanuel... Designed and Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., chromolithographed map, laid on linen, map sheet 552 x 763mm., G.W. Bacon & Co., 1914

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Celebrated serio-comic curiosity map published at the outbreak of the Great War, in which the the main protagonists are depicted as dogs: the British bulldog, French poodle, German dachshund, etc. Russia is depicted as a steam-roller (see provenance), with Czar Nicholas at the wheel.

Provenance: Aveling & Porter Ltd., Rochester, manufacturers of steam rollers and agricultural engines, circular stamp in sea area of map.

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