The Lure of the Postage Stamp
Author | : Bertram William Henry Poole |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Author | : Bertram William Henry Poole |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Author | : Ken Conoley |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Postage stamps |
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Author | : Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Postage-stamps |
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"A young lady, being desirous of covering her dressing room with cancelled postage stamps, has been so far encouraged in her wish by private friends as to have succeeded in collecting 16,000. These, however, being insufficient, she will be greatly obliged if any good-natured person who may have these (otherwise useless) little articles at their disposal would assist her in her whimsical project." So read an advertisement in the London Times in 1841, just one year after the first postage stamp was issued. And that was the beginning of stamp collecting. The craze spread rapidly on both sides of the Atlantic. Small boys and millionaires, old ladies and speculators, forgers and swindlers--all were attracted to stamp collecting, some for fun and some for profit. Huge sums of money changed hands as the value of rarities became known, and a lucky find could make a fortune for even the most modest collector. Fortunes could be lost too, however, for there were many skillful forgeries, and few collectors managed to avoid purchasing one or two fakes. The lure of stamp collecting still attracts millions of enthusiasts, for whom the excitement of the hunt for rarities and the fascination of the stamps themselves provide an irresistible challenge. All this, plus the stories of famous auctions and notable collectors like F.D.R. and King George V of England, make this book an engrossing panorama of a fascinating occupation.--From publisher description.
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Author | : Frederick John Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Author | : Jennifer Fandel |
Publisher | : The Creative Company |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781583415542 |
Looks at how the Industrial Revolution itself revolutionized the postal service in Great Britain, discussing how Rowland Hill developed the idea of stamps, how they were first designed and created, and their impact on the postal service.
Author | : Collectors Club (New York, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Postage stamps |
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Vol. for 1928 includes translations from Khol's Handbook.
Author | : Charles S. Olcott |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lure of the Camera" by Charles S. Olcott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Patrick Chalmers |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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