Chats on Postage Stamps
by Frederick John Melville
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About this eBook
- Author
- Melville, Frederick John, 1882-1940
- Credits
- Produced by Susan Skinner, Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Stamp collecting
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 53431
- Release Date
- November 2, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CHATS ON POSTAGE STAMPS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT — LIST OF PLATES
- 5.PHILATELIC TERMS
- 6.I THE GENESIS OF THE POST
- 7.II THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEA
- 8.III SOME EARLY PIONEERS OF PHILATELY
- 9.IV ON FORMING A COLLECTION
- 10.V THE SCOPE OF A MODERN COLLECTION
- 11.VI ON LIMITING A COLLECTION
- 12.VII STAMP- COLLECTING AS AN INVESTMENT
- 13.VIII FORGERIES, FAKES, AND FANCIES
- 14.IX FAMOUS COLLECTIONS
- 15.X ROYAL AND NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
- 16.A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHILATELY — BIBLIOGRAPHY — GENERAL HANDBOOKS — GENERAL CATALOGUE (NOT PRICED) — GENERAL CATALOGUES (PRICED) — COLLECTIONS — SPECIAL HANDBOOKS
- 17.INDEX
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