item: #1 of 8
          id: 22190
      author: Poole, Bertram W. H. (Bertram William Henry)
       title: The Stamps of Canada
        date: None
       words: 60426
      flesch: 64
     summary: the existence of a 3 cent Canada stamp, emission of 1868, on laid paper. The operation of the department was greatly extended, and last, but most decidedly not least, was the introduction of postage stamps.
    keywords: 1/2c; 10c; american; british; canada; canada postage; canadian; cent stamps; cents; chapter; delivery stamps; denomination; department; design; following; general; half; issue; jubilee stamps; king; letters; new; office; ottawa; paper; plate; post office; postage stamps; postmaster; rate; registration; registration stamps; scott; series; set; sheets; special; stamps; states; time; united; use; value; varieties
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 26601
      author: Melville, Frederick John
       title: Gambia
        date: None
       words: 8379
      flesch: 78
     summary: Many Gambia stamps can also be found postmarked Freetown, Sierra Leone, or Registered, Sierra Leone, but as we have no record of Gambia stamps being used to defray postage from Sierra Leone, we must conclude that they were sent on by a steamer which did not possess a post office, and cancelled at Sierra Leone before being shipped on the mail steamer. For regulating the affixing of postage stamps.
    keywords: carmine; crown; deep; gambia; green; page; plate; stamps; ultramarine; yellow
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 34007
      author: Melville, Frederick John
       title: The Postage Stamp in War
        date: None
       words: 25795
      flesch: 68
     summary: The portraits of the Tsars never appeared on the stamps of Russia until 1913, when a very fine portrait and view series of stamps were issued (_Figs._ 171-187), and although not issued as war stamps they are full of reminiscence of the three centuries of the stirring history of the Romanofs. Brave little Belgium, whose King is the outstanding hero of the present war has not hitherto had any occasion to provide collectors with war stamps since the first Belgian issue of adhesive postage stamps in 1849-50 with the portrait of Leopold I. (_Figs._ 203, 204).
    keywords: army; base; black; british; china; field; fig; figs; france; french; general; german; government; green; illustration; indian; issue; king; letters; military; new; office; page; portrait; post; post office; postage stamps; postal; postmarks; present; red; service; set; south; stamps; states; troops; turkey; type; use; war; war stamps
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 35566
      author: Tiffany, John K. (John Kerr)
       title: History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America
        date: None
       words: 63520
      flesch: 68
     summary: FOUR CENT STAMP. Mr. Wimer, the postmaster, has prepared a set of letter stamps, or rather marks to put upon letters, indicating that the postage has been paid.
    keywords: act; capitals; cents; colorless; corners; department; fine; following; frame; general; ground; hand; horizontal; impression; issue; left; letters; line; new; office; oval; paper; plate; postage; postage stamps; postmaster; right; specimens; stamps; states; upper; value; white; | |
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 37457
      author: Howes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
       title: Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery
        date: None
       words: 115256
      flesch: 69
     summary: I hear that in Montreal it was found necessary to use cent stamps to prepay the half cent rate.[143] Fortunately for the reputation of Canadian stamps, these stamps were not over-printed with new value, and we have been spared a surcharge. We find notice of the issue of the new values in the _Dominion Philatelist_[117] as follows:-- As foreshadowed in the Postmaster General's report, there have appeared Canada postage stamps of the value of 20c.
    keywords: 1st; 30th; act; american; black; blue; british; brown; canada; canada postage; canadian; card; case; cent letter; cent postage; cent rate; cent stamp; cents; date; deep; delivery; department; dominion; envelopes; find; following; general; green; half; issue; june; letters; matter; new; newspapers; note; number; ottawa; paper; pence; philatelic; plate; post office; postage rate; postage stamps; postal; postmaster; rate; red; report; series; size; states; time; united; use; value; weekly; wove; year
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 39569
      author: Chalmers, Patrick
       title: The Adhesive Postage Stamp
        date: None
       words: 14414
      flesch: 55
     summary: Subsequently he conceived the idea of an adhesive stamp for postage purposes; and it was this invention, made known to such post-office reformers as Mr. Hume and Mr. Wallace--with both of whom, as with others, he was in communication--that formed the origin of the adoption of the adhesive stamp in the reformed Penny Postage system of 1840, the plan proposed by Mr. Rowland Hill in 1837 having been that of the impressed stamp. The plan by which Mr. Rowland Hill, in his pamphlet of 1837, proposed to carry out in practice his uniform penny postage scheme was, shortly stated, first, simply to pay the penny or money with the letters; but secondly, and more especially, by stamped sheets of letter paper, and stamped wrappers or covers.
    keywords: chalmers; hill; invention; office; paper; penny; plan; postage; postage stamp; public; rowland hill; scheme; sir; stamp
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 40002
      author: Berthold, Victor Maximilian
       title: The Die Varieties of the Nesbitt Series of United States Envelopes
        date: None
       words: 31527
      flesch: 92
     summary: Assuming that not many collectors, either young or old, have busied themselves with die varieties a few remarks about the method or way of studying them, gained from practical experience, may not be out of place. It is true that die varieties may be found in half a dozen different ways, but it is equally plain that if we can use a uniform method, applicable to all, we shall be far better off.
    keywords: buff; cents; close; curve; die; head; illustration; left; line; oval; paper; right; var; varieties; variety
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 43857
      author: Boston Public Library
       title: Catalogue of books on philately in the Public Library of the city of Boston
        date: None
       words: 9720
      flesch: 82
     summary: St. Louis, 1892, 64pp. illus. $=American Philatelic Association.= 2237.137$ $Catalogue of the American Philatelic Association's loan exhibit of postage stamps to the United States Post Office Department, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.$ $Birmingham, Conn. Bacon & Co., 1893.
    keywords: 8^o; boston; catalogue; co.; des; envelopes; illus; john; london; mass; new; philatelic; plates; postage; stamps; timbres; vol; york
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