RUSTY PECHA

In
Focus

A changing selection of editorials we feel deserve a closer reading.

Two rows of worn vintage books framed by trailing dusty-sage foliage against a dark ink-navy bookcase

This week

Close crop of the Grand Stamp Album’s original dark-blue leaf-wreath title device, tilted slightly against its worn tan cloth cover

Stamps & postal history · 1940 gift · 8 minute read

A World in Need of a Caption

A 1940 stamp album begins by sorting the world into countries, then reveals the stranger work stamps were asked to do.

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Folded linen-backed cover of a Survey of India map, Sheet 72 G

Maps & charts · 1912 · 8 minute read

How to Read an Old Map

What the title, scale, margins, routes and folds of a Survey of India sheet can reveal.

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Blue engineering drawing of a Brush-Koela duo-draught gas producer with labelled sections and pipework

Industry & design · 1906–1940 · 8 minute read

Understanding Blueprints

Three industrial drawings and the practical information they were made to carry.

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