The stamp collector: a guide to the world's postage stamps
- Author(s): Stanley Currie Johnson
- Category: Stamps
- Publisher: London: H. Jenkins
- Publish year: 1920
- ISBN: 9678000002563
- Number of Pages: 396
Stamp collecting was an unknown hobby two generations ago, yet its present followers may be counted by hundreds of thousands. In no period of its existence has it been so popular as to-day, partly because the War led many people to seek solace from its pursuit and partly because the national outlook has grown more world- wide than heretofore.
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Copyright
THE STAMP COLLECTOR
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
LINE ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I ON COLLECTING POSTAGE STAMPS
CHAPTER II PLANNING AND ARRANGING THE COLLECTION
CHAPTER III SPECIALISED COLLECTIONS
CHAPTER IV TECHNICAL MATTERS
CHAPTER V STAMPS, DESIRABLE AND OTHERWISE
CHAPTER VI FORGED AND FAKED STAMPS
CHAPTER VII SIR ROWLAND HILL AND OTHER PIONEERS
CHAPTER VIII THE LINE-ENGRAVED STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER IX THE EMBOSSED STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER X THE SURFACE-PRINTED STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER XI THE SURFACE-PRINTED STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER XII THE STAMPS OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
CHAPTER XIII THE STAMPS OF THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER XIV CONTINENTAL STAMPS (FRANCE EXCEPTED)
CHAPTER XV THE STAMPS OF FRANCE AND HER COLONIES
CHAPTER XVI THE STAMPS OF AUSTRALIA (Including New Zealand)
CHAPTER XVII. SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIALS
CHAPTER XVIII THE STAMPS OF BRITISH INDIA
CHAPTER XIX THE STAMPS OF THE MINOR BRITISH POSSESSIONS
CHAPTER XX THE STAMPS OF CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES
CHAPTER XXI THE STAMPS OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
CHAPTER XXII THE STAMPS OF WAR
CHAPTER XXIII RARE STAMPS
CHAPTER XXIV PHILATELY FOR THE YOUNG
CHAPTER XXV A GLOSSARY OF PHILATELIC TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX