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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
INTRODUCTION - - - - I
I. PHILATELIC TERMS
EXPLAINED - - 2
II. HOW
TO FORM A STAMP COLLECTION - 5
III. SPECIALIZING - - 1 8
IV. THE STAMPS OF GREAT
BRITAIN - ' 27
V. STAMPS WORTH FORTUNES - -
'37
VI. COMMON STAMPS - - 42
VII. STAMPS OF SPECIAL
INTEREST - 46
VIII. FORGED STAMPS - - -
"52
IX. PIONEERS OF POSTAGE -
- 59
X. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS -
- 64
XI. INTERESTING PICTURE
STAMPS - - 72
XII. STAMPS AND HISTORY -
~ 77
XIII. WAR
STAMPS - - - - 82
XIV. SOME FAMOUS
COLLECTIONS - - - 88
111
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. PORTRAITS OF KING
GEORGE V. - Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2. OVERPRINTED STAMPS
3. SOME MEMBERS OF OUR
ROYAL FAMILY - 17
4. POSTAGE STAMPS HAVING
SPECIAL USES - 24
5. SPECIMEN STAMPS - - 2 7
6. SOME PENNY STAMPS OF
GREAT BRITAIN - 30
7. PORTRAITS OF SOME
EUROPEAN MONARCHS - 41
8. CURIOUS STAMPS - - - 48
9. STAMPS BEARING NATIONAL
EMBLEMS - 57
10. NOTED STATESMEN OF THE
U.S.A. - 64
11. SOME VIEW STAMPS - 73
12. ZOOLOGICAL STAMPS - 80
13. SOME HAPSBURG
PORTRAITS - 83
14. STAMPS FROM THE GREAT
WAR ZONE - 85
15. STAMPS COMING FROM
COUNTRIES WHICH No LONGER
HAVE SEPARATE ISSUES -
1 6. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS - - 90
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CONTENTS
Foreword.
" Occupation " Stamps.
1. Togoland (Anglo-French
Occupation).
2. Samoa (New Zealand Occupation).
3. New
Britain and Marshall Islands (Australian Commonwealth
Administration).
4. North-West Pacific
Islands.
5. Marshall Islands
(Japanese Occupation).
6. Kiauchau (Japanese
Occupation).
7. Nauru (British
Occupation).
8. Cameroons (Angle-French
Occupation).
9. Bushire (under British
Occupation).
10. Mesopotamia (Baghdad,
Iraq and Mosul).
11. East Africa (Belgian,
Portuguese and British Occupations).
12. Mafia Island,
13. Salonika and Long
Island (British Occupation).
14. Palestine (Occupied
Enemy Territory Administration).
15. He Rouad (French Occupation).
16. Indian Expeditionary
Force.
ly. British Honduras
(Contraband Issue).
18. Italian Irridentist
Provinces (Re-Occupation of Trente and Trieste).
19. Fiume (Italian and
Jugo-Slav Occupations).
20. Hungary (Allied
Occupation).
21. Cilicia and Syria
(French Occupation).
22. A^ia Minor (Greek
Occupation).
23. Rhineland (Belgian
Occupation).
24. Azerbeidjan (Allied
Occupation).
25. War
Stamps as an Investment.
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