AMP World Map.
Sydney, Australia. Australian Motorists Petrol Company Ltd. (A.M.P.), pre 1942. Stock ID #210773 World War II era advertising wall map printed in Australia for Australian Motorists Petrol Company Ltd. (AMP, now Ampol): "With the Compliments of Australian Motorists Petrol Co. Ltd. (Authorized Capital £1,000,000)" (map text) and pleads "In Wartime buy Australian" and "Australia Merits Preference". AMP was the first publicly listed Australian oil company. When referring to this item please quote stockid 210773.
Large brightly coloured folding world map 51 x 97.4 cms (map); 61 x 101 cms (sheet), archivally mounted on linen, breaks at several folds and a minute bit of paper loss in the Celebes (now Sulawesi) and northern Afghanistan professionally repaired; in very good clean condition.
A colour-coded key identifies European colonial powers, the continent of Africa being the recipient of multiple colonial claimants. British Imperial might was still dominant however, claiming Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Southern and Eastern Africa, India, and British Guyana. Notably Micronesia is identified as "Japanese Mandate", but the map was published before the Japanese occupation of New Guinea. Tannu Tuva (now the Tuva Republic within the Russian Federation) is noted separately as is Sinkiang (now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region [XUAR]).
A scarce map and when available usually in poor condition, this copy in very good, attractive condition archivally mounted and ready for framing.
Price: $450.00 AU