Detailed town plan of Singapore

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Map of Singapore Town.

[OUR HALF SHARE] [Anonymous]
[?Singapore,
c.1945].
Lithographic map, original folds flattened, with small repairs at folds, discrete ink mss.
305 by 510mm (12 by 20 inches).
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A commercial map of Singapore, overprinted with a red ink stamp of 'Fraser & Neave Ltd', a Singaporean printing and brewing company, suggesting it was owned by someone with connections to the company or possibly produced for it. Fraser and Neave had published a handbook to Hong Kong with an accompanying map in 1907, although their focus had turned to brewing by this point. The establishments shown date the map to the 1940s, possibly after the Japanese occupation of Singapor...

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