Antique map collectors 90-year-old Albert Ganado and Glen McLaughlin, 80, met at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta.
Ganado showed Mclaughlin several siege maps of Malta and explained the various states and editions published in connection with the Great Siege of 1565.
They narrated episodes and anecdotes on how they had acquired certain maps in their collections.
At the end of their meeting, Mclaughlin was presented with two Malta Map Society publications, German Malta Maps and The Early Maltese Cartographers, by Ganado, who is the society’s president.