Author: Lester George BrookmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages :
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The United States Postage Stamps of the 19th Century
Author: Lester George BrookmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages :
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The British Postage Stamp
Author: Robson LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Rowland Hill reform, Penny Black, printed envelope, embassed stamps, surface printing, special stamps, Nachdruck.
The American Stamp
Author: Laura GoldblattPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231557337
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.
The Great Texas Stamp Collection
Author: Charles W. DeatonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292745737
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps. In this thoroughly researched history of these rare and highly coveted stamps, The Great Texas Stamp Collection traces their journey from creation through their rediscovery years later by local, and then international, stamp collectors—a journey that culminated in the sale of a few pieces at a recent auction in New York that fetched more than $250,000. Weaving the larger contexts of Texas and U.S. postal history together with individual tales of greed, intrigue, forgery, and discovery, Deaton’s book is rich with characters from European royalty to early stamp dealers to common criminals, while also providing detailed examinations of the stamps themselves, including a complete census of the stamps now known as the Texas Confederate Postmasters’ Provisionals. Appealing at once to devoted philatelists, Texas and U.S. history buffs, and amateur collectors of all kinds, The Great Texas Stamp Collection offers a unique vantage point from which to view our history as well as the very nature of collecting.
Stamps
Author: Philatelic Literature Review
Author: The Collectors Club Philatelist
Author: Collectors Club (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Vol. for 1928 includes translations from Khol's Handbook.
Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society
Author: Dutchess County Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly and International Stamp Advertiser ...
Author: Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News
Author: I. A. MekeelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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