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A chemist by profession, Henry E. Tester was awarded the RPSL's prestigious Crawford medal (1982) for his two-volume "The private ship letter stamps of the world".
As noted previously, in recent years my focus has been philatelic research rather than collecting (or more accurately, accumulating). Remain in awe of the amount of written material produced across the last 150 years specific to what is arguably a rather arcane topic. Interested in stamps of steamship companies? There's three pages of listings. Hotel posts? Two pages. Fiscal and revenue stamps? Tester has 19 pages. And on and on.
Although it is rather likely I will never read the vast majority of the items listed within this slim volume (120 pages), don't believe a successor work has ever been produced. Therefore, the work of Tester and his CSC contemporaries is, in effect, the standard reference. (Should a fellow SOR member present evidence to the contrary, am happy to stand corrected.)
So if you wish to delve into Moroccan Local Posts or Prisoner-of-War and Displaced Persons Camp Post Stamps, I'm your guy.
Thanks to noted bibliopole Leonard Hartmann (Louisville KY) for assisting me with this acquisition.
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I must be going senile ? I thought I posted this earlier today but can't see it ,may have put it in the wrong place?
We had a gentleman here in Australia who ran a business selling cinderella stamps ,he produced regular catalogues his name was Bill Hornadge published by his company Review Publications.
I only have #11 but I also have a cd with all of the issues on it.
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Yes, I too have the CD. Some great info from Mr.Hornadge.
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I managed to pick up a few books on my recent trip to the UK.
A few were non-postal connected and some were scarce.
I'd been after a couple here for a long time but never found at a decent price. Now I have !!
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Is there a copyright date on that Album Weeds book? It looks old and very interesting
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The writers' Intro dates as 1882. The book belonged to a Robert Milne and signed by him in 1889.
I believe later copies have different coloured covers.
But I'd need to check again.
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Album Weeds
You can download a copy of this book on Stamp Smarter.
Go to...
https://stampsmarter.org/Learning/Home_C ...
Scroll down to the fourth row. The book is the fourth entry in that row. Click on the book or the LAUNCH button and it will download.
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Wow thanks for that!
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Yesterday received a copy of the long out-of-print Literature of Cinderella Philately by H.E. Tester. Published in 1972, this was the first in a series (five or six?) of small specialty handbooks produced by the Cinderella Stamp Club (UK).
A chemist by profession, Henry E. Tester was awarded the RPSL's prestigious Crawford medal (1982) for his two-volume "The private ship letter stamps of the world".
As noted previously, in recent years my focus has been philatelic research rather than collecting (or more accurately, accumulating). Remain in awe of the amount of written material produced across the last 150 years specific to what is arguably a rather arcane topic. Interested in stamps of steamship companies? There's three pages of listings. Hotel posts? Two pages. Fiscal and revenue stamps? Tester has 19 pages. And on and on.
Although it is rather likely I will never read the vast majority of the items listed within this slim volume (120 pages), don't believe a successor work has ever been produced. Therefore, the work of Tester and his CSC contemporaries is, in effect, the standard reference. (Should a fellow SOR member present evidence to the contrary, am happy to stand corrected.)
So if you wish to delve into Moroccan Local Posts or Prisoner-of-War and Displaced Persons Camp Post Stamps, I'm your guy.
Thanks to noted bibliopole Leonard Hartmann (Louisville KY) for assisting me with this acquisition.
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I must be going senile ? I thought I posted this earlier today but can't see it ,may have put it in the wrong place?
We had a gentleman here in Australia who ran a business selling cinderella stamps ,he produced regular catalogues his name was Bill Hornadge published by his company Review Publications.
I only have #11 but I also have a cd with all of the issues on it.
Brian
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Yes, I too have the CD. Some great info from Mr.Hornadge.
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re: Literature of Cinderella Philately
I managed to pick up a few books on my recent trip to the UK.
A few were non-postal connected and some were scarce.
I'd been after a couple here for a long time but never found at a decent price. Now I have !!
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Is there a copyright date on that Album Weeds book? It looks old and very interesting
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re: Literature of Cinderella Philately
The writers' Intro dates as 1882. The book belonged to a Robert Milne and signed by him in 1889.
I believe later copies have different coloured covers.
But I'd need to check again.
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Album Weeds
You can download a copy of this book on Stamp Smarter.
Go to...
https://stampsmarter.org/Learning/Home_C ...
Scroll down to the fourth row. The book is the fourth entry in that row. Click on the book or the LAUNCH button and it will download.
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