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The following is an account of the philatelic auctioneering of Messrs. Harmer, Rooke & Co as published in The Postage Stamp (December, 1910). The Romance of Philatelic Auctioneering It is nearly forty years since the first stamp auction was held in London. ...
Richard A. Turton. Mr John Walter Scott This entertaining account was first published in The Postage Stamp (October, 1913). It ran as first in a series under the title "Postage Stamp Romances: The True Stories of the Stamp World, Collected by Cornelius ...
The Antiquarian. English may well be described as the lingua franca of the Internet. I found this philatelic snippet in The Stamp News (January 1, 1892) most interesting: “Professor A. F. Marsh says that more than one-half of the letters of the ...
The Antiquarian. This charming poem by Guy W. Green originally appeared in The Philatelic Era in 1892. Related posts:Fiji: Rates of Postage (1921) Here are postal rates for Fiji issued in 1921. PDb...Fiji: The KGV 1922-1929 Script Watermark Issue Gary Watson, LL.B. ...
“Historia” By the enactment of 1710 (England) a special warrant was required for each opening or detention of correspondence. For a long time great laxity prevailed in following this procedure, and the constant tampering with the public correspondence elicited strong protests ...
The following article was first published in Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal (December, 1893) and it stands as a interesting window into the history of typesetting. Many of the fonts described are now known by other names. In describing the inscriptions, or ...
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Jeremy A. Lifsey This article was originally published in Linn's Stamp News, July 2005. In the summer of 1890, 17 year old Robert M. Miller founded the Sons of Philatelia (S of P). He wanted to establish a philatelic society that was ...
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