War stamps of the Allies, 1914-1920: An historical record
- Author(s): Douglas B Armstrong and Charles H Greenwood
- Category: Stamps
- Publisher: London : The Offices of Stamp Collecting
- Publish year: 1920
- ISBN: 9678000002594
- Number of Pages: 152
History is oft-times recorded in unconsidered trifles, and nowhere more prominently or enduringly than in the pages of the Stamp Album. As an emblem of the State the postage stamp is peculiarly "susceptible to the influence of national and political vicissitudes. Just as from time immemorial dynastic and governmental changes have invariablv been reflected upon the coinage of the countries concerned, so it is with its modern prototype, the adhesive postage stamp; but to an infinitely greater extent.
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Copyright
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
FOREWORD
"OCCUPATION" STAMPS
TOGOLAND
SAMOA
NEW BRITAIN
N.W. PACIFIC ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS
KIAUCHAU
NAURU
CAMEROONS
BUSHIRE
MESOPOTAMIA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ AND MOSUL
EAST AFRICA
MAFIA ISLAND
SALONIKA AND LONG ISLAND
E. E. F.
ILE ROUAD
INDIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
BRITISH HONDURAS
ITALIAN IRRIDENTIST PROVINCES
FIUME
HUNGARY
CILICIA AND SYRIA
ASIA MINOR
RHINELAND
AZERBEIJAN
THE MARKET IN WAR STAMPS, 1914 - 1920.