Turkey | A silver woven map titled 'Carte télégraphique de la Turquie de 1892'

Turkey

Silver woven map of Turkey, Greece, Montenegro, Crete and region titled in Ottoman Turkish, and French 'Carte télégraphique de la Turquie de 1892'

SILVER WOVEN MAP with black and green threads and elaborate woven silver border (map area: 60 x 780mm., including border: 710 x 890mm.), titled and captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French and dated 1892, embroidered signature in Ottoman Turkish (lower left), framed and glazed

A large and impressive rare silver woven map depicting the routes of the Turkish telegraph network extending from Constantinople to Greece, Montenegro, and Crete. This is likely to have been a special commission for presentation.