Welcome to First Printing Antique Maps and Prints blog

With this inaugural posting, VintageMaps.com is pleased to launch its public blog, which we hope will be of interest and value to the antique maps and antique prints community. Blogging, as a tool, has already indelibly changed the nature of the internet. Blogging takes a fairly static medium, a webpage, and makes it dynamic. It allows for a public discussion, and posting of comments or announcements, in real time. It changes a webpage from a simply “a page” and makes it an interactive forum. With the addition of RSS technology, that forum can be “delivered,” instantaneously, to whoever wishes to subscribe. Most importantly, it allows everyone with something to say, to say it.

So please do. Say it, that is. Use the blog in any way that interests you or is of value to you – but please check the usage guidelines at the blog before your first post! The rules are few, but we won’t allow anything offensive, or purely commercial, in nature. We hope that societies and groups will use the blog to announce events or notices; dealers can look for items; collectors can ask questions; beginning collectors can find help. The range of topics is unlimited, as long as it relates to a field we all love, antique maps and prints.

Neil Street, Owner, VintageMaps.com