Category: Sports/Hobbies
Many people are at a loss to understand the fascination that surrounds the pursuit of stamp collecting. They are surprised at the clannishness of stamp collectors, and their lifelong devotion to their hobby. They are thunderstruck at the enormous prices paid for rare stamps, a...
Many people are at a loss to understand the fascination that surrounds the pursuit of stamp collecting. They are surprised at the clannishness of stamp collectors, and their lif...
2. Chapter 2The introduction of adhesive stamps for the prepayment of postage found France a Republic. A provisional government had just been established on the ruins of the monarchy which...
3. Chapter 3United States, Millbury, 1847, 5 c.--In the United States the general adoption of postage stamps was preceded by what may be termed preliminary issues, of a more or less local c...
4. Chapter 4Let me explain. In the stamp business, as in all other branches of commerce, there are wholesale and retail dealers. The wholesaler buys by the thousand stamps that are printed...
5. Chapter 5These Packets cannot be sent by book post to Postal Union Countries. The cost by letter rate is 2-1/2d. for every 100 Stamps. The amount required for postage can therefore be re...
6. Chapter 6The demand for this Album has simply been phenomenal, and it gives universal satisfaction--not a single complaint has been received. The last Edition had nearly 20 extra pages a...
7. Chapter 7This Work is a reprint in book-form, with a few alterations and additions, of a series of papers that have appeared in "The Monthly Journal." The book consists of 240 pages and...