When my father-in-law came to visit a few weeks ago he brought a very special housewarming gift - a map of Asia drawn by his grandfather when he was a schoolboy in 1889.
Old and faded and watermarked, this map is nonetheless a treasure. Its elegant, spidery writing draws us back to an era when the British Empire ruled, when Iran was Persia and Thailand was Siam; an era when beautiful handwriting was a skill to be developed and admired.
The map doesn't have a permanent home yet. At present it's on our sitting room mantelpiece. However, it is the kind of treasure that we want to keep forever.
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