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This volume also caters for the moderately specialized collector. Listings of Fiscal and Telegraph stamps, as well as self-adhesive ‘smilers’, are here, to say nothing of elliptical perforation differences. There is also a two-page chapter on the Queen Victoria line-engraved issues, with a paragraph about postmark variations from the classic Maltese Cross design onwards.
Collectors have long since regarded this publication as a handy checklist and guide to values, but it is far more than that. It is in effect an illustrated history of British stamp design, and while it may provide more detail than some will ever need, finding one’s way around is easy enough. Despite recent trends in technology which have tended to marginalise the stamp in recent years, I find it encouraging that the hobby is still thriving, and that we still have the catalogue, updated and barely recognizable from the hefty hardback tomes that I remember from my childhood, still here to reflect the fact and assist today’s enthusiasts.
Our thanks to Stanley Gibbons for sending a copy to Bookbag. We have a review of [[Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2013 by Stanley Gibbons]].
For further reading on a similar subject, why not try [[Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs by Fraser's Autographs]]; or for an associated work of fiction, [[The Stamp King by G. De Beauregard and H. De Gorsse]], translated by Edith C. Phillips. You might also enjoy [[A History of Victorian Postage by Gerard Cheshire]].
