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Exploring the Periodicals Collection: The Collector’s Companion — Bonny Farmer

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Union Catalogue Members The Collectors Club Library boasts one of the most important philatelic libraries anywhere in the world. Beyond housing some of the very rare pieces in philatelic literature, it is very much Roger Brody, President a “working” library. Members and visitors can APRL Board of Trustees research or browse through thousands of philatelic publications, comprehensive groups of historical periodicals, and extensive runs of priced auction catalogues. The Collectors Club maintains a library of approximately 150,000 volumes for the free use of the interested public. Scholars and historians have free access and use of the library and are referred to the library by the New York Public Library, educational institutions, and philatelic groups throughout The Collectors Club Library the world. The books and The Collectors Club pamphlets currently in the 22 East 35th Street, New York, NY Library’s Main Room can be 10016-3806 searched using the Online Telephone: 212-683-0559 Catalogue of American E-mail: [email protected] Philatelic Research Library Website: www.collectorsclub.org (APRL). (Select “CCNY” from the “Location” dropdown selection list near the bottom of the Online Catalogue Search form.) As the Library committee updates and verifies our holdings, additional sections of our catalogue holdings will be incorporated into the APRL’s Online Catalogue. The library collection is so large that its physical size was one of the key motivators for our renovation of the Clubhouse in 2000.

Library Hours The library is open during normal Club hours, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library rooms will not be open when the clubhouse is open for philatelic society evening meetings on the second floor. On scheduled program meeting evenings, however, the library will remain open until 6 p.m.

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Please note that library volunteers are usually at the Club on Wednesdays. Access to the rarity section is by appointment only and requires the presence of one of the library assistants. Members not observing library rules or for other proper cause, may be denied further privileges of the library.

Library Structure The holdings of the Library are organized and located according to the following: Books and Pamphlets: Main Library (1st Floor) Books and pamphlets are in the cabinets in the first floor Main Library, filed by country. United States material is currently being arranged by subject category, thereafter by author, or publisher, in alphabetical order. Non-U.S. material is currently arranged by country in alphabetical order and thereafter by author, or publisher. As this is the main reading room of the library, users will also find here a topical section, principal reference works, audio/video files, and recently received books, periodicals, and auction catalogues. Periodicals & Journals: (Basement) All of the serial publications are now filed by title in alphabetical order on rolling shelves and in file cabinets in the basement. Auction Catalogues: (3rd Floor, Back) Auction catalogues are housed on the third floor of our building. Old Catalogues and Miscellaneous: (4th Floor, Back) Old stamp catalogues, other miscellaneous publications, and historical records of the Club are on the fourth floor.

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Rarities Room (4th Floor, Front) This room houses our rare books and name-sale auction catalogue section. The area also is used to process incoming library material.

Catalogue Room (5th Floor, Front) This room contains complete runs of stamp catalogues, principally from Scott Publishing Co. and Stanley Gibbons Ltd., along with catalogues and other publications of major international exhibitions.

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The following rules of operation of the library are implemented to facilitate efficient use and care of library materials, and to achieve a better understanding of how the library is being used. We are in the process of updating the library database, which will be available on the clubhouse computer facility, and thereafter accessible on the Internet via the Collectors Club website (www.collectorsclub.org).

(1) Library Sign-in Register: All members and non-members using the Library are required to register their names in the book provided for that purpose. The sign-in register is located on the front table of the Main Library. Members and guests are asked to sign-in with the following information: Date, Name, Reading / Research area of interest.

(2) “Return Books Here” Bin: All books and pamphlets taken from the shelves should not be returned to the shelves. It is hoped that we can reduce misfiling after use, if material is placed in the “Return Books Here” bin located near the reference section. Library volunteers will return material to the shelves. Main reading room 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 101

(3) Library Etiquette: Neither drinks nor food are permitted in any sections of the library. Members who observe a defect (loose plates, missing pages, improperly collated serials, etc.) or damage to any library material are requested to bring it to the attention of a library volunteer or the Club office. The Library Cases must be kept locked at all times when a library volunteer is not in attendance.

(4) Rarities Section: Material filed in the Rarities Room may be consulted by members under the supervision of a library volunteer, but such items cannot be taken from the reading room or on loan. No more than one item from this section may be used at any one time.

(5) Library Loan: Members may borrow non-reference material from the Main Library (only) for a maximum period of 30 days. Periodicals and Catalogues may not be removed from the Library. Member borrowers are required to complete a Loan Form, available from the Club office. Borrowed material may be returned in person or by mail, using “Signature Confirmation.” Material borrowed from the Library, either in person or through the mail, must be returned within 30 days. If there are no outstanding requests for the material, an additional 30 days extension may be granted by the Club office. Requests for renewals may be made in person, by phone, or by mail and will be acknowledged.

(6) Mail Loan Fees: To cover the costs incurred in providing library services through the mail, fees are: Base fee: $10 per shipment/request (includes up to 15 minutes of staff time) Books: $3 for the first book, $1 for each subsequent book, and 25¢ per page for any photocopies Photocopies: (without any books) — 15 copies included in the base fee plus 25¢ per page afterwards Extensive photocopies/research requests: After the initial 15 minutes included in the base fee, a $20 per hour fee is charged, which is billed in half-hour increments. If it is anticipated that a request 102

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will require additional time (long photocopy requests, etc.) the requestor will be notify by e-mail whenever possible.

History The following is an extract from “The Collectors Club Library” by Miklos Pinther. The Beginning In July of 1896, a group of prominent New York philatelists got together to discuss the creation of a club, a meeting that was later described as “inspirational” by John N. Luff, one of the participants. The idea was to bring together and create a home for all philatelic interests in the City. An organization committee was set up under the chairmanship of John Walter Scott, members were recruited, funds were secured, and by October a club house was acquired. The formal opening took place on October 28, 1896, just three months following that brainstorming session. Shortly thereafter officers were elected with William Herrick as the first President, and committees were formed including a Literary Committee headed up by Hiram E. Deats. Incorporated in the charter of the Club was the “maintenance of a reading room,” the cradle of a library. It was set up on the second floor of the new Club House which was located in an up-scale neighborhood within a block of Madison Square, near the location of the old Madison 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 103

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Square Garden. In short order, Deats and his fellow committee members began to fill up the shelves with books and pamphlets, periodicals and catalogues, and various related standard reference works. Some were donated by publishers and friends, others were purchased or subscribed to. By the time John W. Scott took over the librarianship in 1913, the Club indeed had a useful Library of close to a thousand volumes at the pleasure of its members. Scott also set out to fully classify and catalogue the collection for the first time, an effort that was picked up by Professor J. Brace Chittenden. It was under Chittenden’s tenure from 1921 to 1928 that the Club’s Library was most enriched by some of the finest literary collections. These included the personal library of Hofrath Victor Suppantschitsch, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Austria, many unique items from the library of John K. Tiffany, philatelic literature from E. B. Sterling, Theodore E. Steinway, and Señor Busch of Buenos Aires, and the extensive collection of some 1,400 bound volumes from Joseph S. Rich. Following Professor Chittenden’s good work, it fell upon Harry M. Knowiser to organize the now largely expanded Library. During the 1930s, he revised and produced an extensive card catalogue that served the readers for decades to come. The collection by this time was generally recognized as not only the richest philatelic library in the United States, but arguably one of the finest in the world. A Permanent Home In October 1937, The Collectors Club purchased a five-story building from the estate of Thomas B. Clark, a collector of fine arts. It was specially designed for him by the renowned architect Stanford White, a 104

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lovely structure that became a New York City landmark in 1979. Before moving in, internal remodeling was carried out under the direction of Clarence Brazer, an architect who was also a member of the Club. Some of the modifications addressed the Library’s needs that included an enlarged room, extra storage space, and special glass-door shelving units. The collection was separated into several major divisions, which were shelved at different locations throughout the building. Handbooks and monographs were generally in the main reading room on the second floor, although books on certain subjects such as revenues were located elsewhere. Some serial publications were also on the second floor as well as later in the basement. Auction catalogues and stamp catalogues were filed on the third floor, and later also on the fourth floor. Unique and rare items were housed separately, principally in the main reading room. As the Library grew, and other functions, such as the editorial office of The Collectors Club Philatelist, moved out, these spaces were occupied by books and catalogues. In the ensuing years, volunteer “librarians” strived to maintain an order to the collection, sent out books (primarily periodicals) for binding, catalogued new acquisitions, and generally assisted users. They also struggled with a collection that was uprooted and moved several times during the forty years since its first home near Madison Square. In fact, before the Club finally settled in its permanent home at 22 East 35th Street, it was relocated a half dozen times. As might be expected, this shuffling caused loss and damage to the holdings. There was also a constant change in librarians, each of whom made some alterations 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 105

The mission of the Library remains the vision of the Club’s founders: it fosters philatelic scholarship by acquiring, organizing, and disseminating philatelic information and knowledge to members of the Club, the philatelic community at large, and the general public.

while seeking improvements. In most cases the librarians were parttime volunteers assisted by a few additional volunteers. Only on rare occasions did the Club actually hire a person on a full-time basis. While some of the volunteers were experts on philatelic literature, and were on the top of their various professions, none were trained, professional librarians. To be sure, committees were formed periodically to study the plight or status of the Library and to make recommendations. But satisfactory solutions to the problems of a finite space and an ever-growing collection were elusive. Cataloguing and filing systems remained an “evolving” process, not necessarily adhering to standard library practices. During the past decade, Robert L. Mitchell, Jr., a member for over fifty years whose father was also a member, began a major modernization of the holdings. No one in recent years was as familiar with the Library as Bob Mitchell. He made several assessments of the physical allocation of the collection, created lists and filing labels for special groups such as the auction catalogues, prepared cataloguing and filing rules, and migrated the card files into a quasi data-base software called Tracker, used at one time by the American Philatelic Research Library as well. In 2001, the Club completed an extensive renovation to the building which included structural strengthening, major improvement to the main meeting room, and relocation of the principal library holdings to the lower floors. During this process over 1000 boxes of library material was removed to storage, then brought back and re-shelved. Needless to say, this was a monumental effort for just a handful of volunteers. While construction was a major disruption, it also provided the Club with an excellent opportunity to take a fresh look and reassess the way the holdings were arranged, catalogued, and filed, to create a more efficient “working” library where members could browse and do research. The mission of the Library remains the vision of the Club’s founders: it fosters philatelic scholarship by acquiring, organizing, and disseminating philatelic information and knowledge to members of the Club, the philatelic community at large, and the general public.

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A Half Century of Collecting Becomes a Book Michael Laurence acquired his first cover franked with a 10-cent U.S. 1869 stamp in 1958; more than fifty years later his fascination with this stamp has culminated in a book, Ten-Cent 1869 Covers: A Postal Historical Survey, published this summer by Collectors Club of Chicago in a limited edition of 500 copies. Although he begins with a chapter on “Domestic Covers,” more than 95 percent of the surviving covers franked with the 10-cent 1869 stamp are foreign correspondence. Thus, the book is largely a study of U.S. international mail from 1869 until 1876. The 1,298 known covers are catalogued and many are illustrated; there are 119 tables giving postage rates along with patterns of usage for these covers. However, Michael’s book is much more than a detailed catalogue of these surviving covers — it is a very readable volume, using the covers to provide a window into American life at the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Gilded Age. The covers function as beginning points for telling stories about the correspondents. Michael, always an entertaining speaker, will present a lecture and sign books at StampShow in Richmond, Virginia on August 13 at 2 p.m. in room B17. (2010, 400 pp., full color, cloth bound with dust jacket, $75 plus shipping from Leonard Hartmann, or Jim Lee.)

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Recently Published Kees Adema has begun a trilogy, Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil, that will trace the history and development of military mail in the Netherlands from the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule through the Belgian revolt and secession. The first volume, covering the period from 1568 through the end of the United Netherlands Republic in 1795, has been published by the Stuart Rossiter Trust; the second volume, which takes the story to the end of the Napoleonic era, is expected by the end of the year. Many of the letters reveal constant English and French involvement in the European conflicts, showing how these two countries effected

the historical development of Belgium and the Netherlands. Along with discussing the changing postal courier routes and tariffs and cataloging the postal markings, Kees gives the historic, military, and political background for each period, placing the philatelic materials in their historical context and permitting an understanding of how the mail was carried in each conflict. Kees explains, “A side benefit of conflict, if one can call it that, is that many letters with military relevance survive, shedding light on contemporary events. More often than not, it is possible to recreate the effect wars, battles, and turmoil had on the transportation of mail. However the writers of these letters often did not survive the

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event about which they wrote, adding a poignant relevance.” (2010, xiv + 168 pp., hardbound, color, in English, $85 plus shipping from Richard Wheatley, 7 Manor Croft, Leeds, LS15 9BW UK e-mail: [email protected]; or by PayPal to David Tett at: DavidTett@ aol.com.) As a companion to their 2003 Maritime Disaster Mail volume, Robin Gwynn and Norman Hoggarth have compiled Railway Disaster Mail, recording the history and postal markings from 528 rail disasters in thirty-four countries between1850 and 1995. The listings in this volume record cachets, labels, and explanatory post office letters related to mail recovered from rail casualties. Also included are manuscript notations on covers that seem likely to have been written by the postal authorities as well as a handful of instances in which no specific explanatory markings are known, but surviving mail can definitely be proven to have been involved in rail accidents. Wherever possible, contemporary reports are cited, giving background information and details about the accidents. The scope of the listings include accidents, derailments, and train collisions along with train fires, hijackings, hold-ups, looted mail and theft, train collisions with motor vehicles, natural disasters, washouts, boulders on tracks, land and snow slides, and acts of war. (2010, 326 pp., hardbound, color throughout, £65 plus shipping from the Stuart Rossiter Trust at the above addresses.) Bill Helbock has released an e-book “double feature” consisting of San Francisco Postal Markings 1847–1900 112

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by John Mahoney and Randy Stehle’s Postal History of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Much of the material previously appeared as articles in his journal, La Posta. The works are available as a direct download PDF for $12.50, or a CD by mail for $17.50. PayPal to [email protected], or send a check via air mail to La Posta, P.O. Box 65, Harwood – NSW 2465, AUSTRALIA. Alvaro Castro-Harrigan, an avid collector and exhibitor of Costa Rica and Panama, has published El Correo Ferroviario de Costa Rica (Costa Rica Traveling Post Offices). His history of the railways in Costa Rica is illustrated with many postcards and photographs of scenes on and around the railway. The final chapter provides a catalogue of all known railway postmarks from the first nineteenth century types through 1982. There are many illustrations of stamps and covers with railway cancels. (2010, 180 pp., English and Spanish text, 8” x 11”, with color plates, hardbound with dust cover, £65 post paid in the Americas, or £70 post paid the in rest of the world from Brian Moorhouse, P.O. Box 105, Peterborough PE3 9TQ, England; e-mail [email protected].) Rex Clark has published his exhibit, Rates to Reform; A Guide to the High Postage Rates in Great Britain and Their Reform, 1812–1840, as a book in which the facing pages explain the significance of the covers. (2009, 262 pp., card cover, full color, $50 plus shipping from Hartmann) Danielski and Schilling have compiled The Maritime Postmarks of the Danish Kingdom. This heavily illustrated volume fills a previous void in Danish philatelic literature. Every Danish

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ship-mail postmark, route postmark, and Paquebot postmark, including those used in Greenland and the Faroe Islands, has been reproduced. Routes, ships, and dates of use are given along with a rarity factor. The 32-page pictorial index of the postmarks organized by their appearance and type makes it easier to find postmark listings. (2010, 243 pp., English text, hardbound, well illustrated, $60 plus shipping from Jay Smith.)

Forthcoming Titles Tom Lera has edited sixteen previously unpublished papers from the first four Postal History Symposia sponsored by the American Philatelic Research Library, the American Philatelic Society, and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum into a single-volume book titled, The Winton S. Blount Postal History Symposia: Selected Papers 2006–2009. It will be published this fall by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press as No. 55 in its publication series “Smithsonian Contributions to History and Technology”; www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/HistoryTechnology/. We expect that publication of Postal History Symposia papers will become an annual event. The Confederate Stamp Alliance (CSA) marked its 75th anniversary this year with the publication of Jim Monroe’s A Lifetime of Collecting Confederate States of America Postal History. The book, which illustrates Monroe’s collection, serves as a primer for the postal history of the Confederacy and includes his remarkable collection of Confederate naval covers. Each CSA member received a free copy; the remainder will

be given to new members as long as the supply lasts. Membership information is available on the CSA website, www. csalliance.org, or by mail from the Confederate Stamp Alliance, 10194 North Old State Road, Lincoln, DE 19960. In October 2006, the Confederate Stamp Alliance acquired the rights to the New Dietz Confederate States Catalog and Handbook, last published in 1986. An expanded and thoroughly revised edition, titled simply Confederate States Catalog and Handbook, is scheduled for publication in 2011 to coincide with the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Although the project is far along, editor-in-chief Trish Kaufmann still invites collectors to offer suggestions, report errors in the old catalogue, and contribute unlisted material discovered since the 1986 edition: www.csacatalog. org/.

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philatelists who, in their “other” lives, are scientists and researchers. President Dave Herendeen notes, “Our experience ranges across a broad spectrum of technologies from physics to chemistry to printing technology and even information science. Just the combination to tackle and solve difficult philatelic problems.” To accomplish its goals, the IAP will provide grants and technical support to assist qualified philatelists in their research. John Barwis, Vice President, explained that the “IAP intends to fund a variety of studies that will solve longstanding philatelic problems through scientific inquiry. We are bringing structure to an incredibly talented group of philatelic scientists.” Because one of the most important aspects of research is the dissemination of results, all philatelists receiving grants from the IAP are required to publish their findings in widely circulated journals of record, both scientific and philatelic. The IAP quarterly newsletter, The Analyst, provides updates on their partnerships with other philatelic organizations as well as the projects they have sponsored. The institute website, www.AnalyticalPhilately.org, includes information about membership, an application form for research grants, updates on funded research, and a nascent bibliography of technical philatelic articles on topics ranging from paper production to spectroscopy.

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Literature Awards The Royal Philatelic Society London awarded its Crawford Medal to Eric Yendall for his book, The King George VI Large Key Types, Revenue and Postage High Value Stamps 1937–1953, which is a detailed study of the George VI high value stamps from Bermuda, Leeward Islands, Nyasaland Protectorate, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, BMA Malaya, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, and Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika.

Society Publications The 80-page Stamp Insider, published six times per year by the Federation of New York Philatelic Societies (www.nystampclubs.org/), allows the stamp clubs in New York (and a few just over the border) to keep each other

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informed about their programs and activities. The magazine also carries a number of regular columnists and a few articles — the current issue features Jeremy Busch writing on “Soviet Stamp Iconography as Propaganda.” The editor is Al Starkweather, e-mail: [email protected]. Although the title might raise an eyebrow, Dummy News and Views is the quarterly newsletter of the Dummy Stamps Study Group (www.usstamps.org/dssg.html) of the United States Stamp Society. The group is devoted to the study and research of test stamps, often popularly called “Dummy Stamps,” printed for testing postal technologies such as coil machines and booklet manufacturing and vending equipment. For membership, contact Terry R. Scott, chairman of the Dummy Stamps Study Group, e-mail: [email protected]. The Rookery Report is the quarterly newsletter of the most recent APS chapter affiliate, the Penguins on Stamps Study Unit, which promotes the study of philatelic material pertaining to Spheniscidae (penguins). Membership information is available from Jean C. Stout, e-mail: [email protected].

Writers Unit Breakfast The next Writers Unit Breakfast will be Sunday, August 15, during StampShow in Richmond. All philatelic writers and editors, as well as those interested in philatelic literature, are invited to attend; reservations can be made on the APS website. ******* I enjoy learning of the diversity of activity in philatelic literature. Keep those letters and e-mails coming: P.O. Box 32858, St. Louis, MO 63132, or [email protected].

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Library News Worldwide Libraries: WorldCat There are relatively few philatelic libraries in the world; however, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of libraries that have philatelic collections. Some of those collections are quite extensive. Many of these collections are included in WorldCat, Larry T. Nix the world’s largest online union library catalogue. WorldCat can be accessed on the web at www.worldcat.org/. WorldCat consists of more than a billion computerized bibliographic records for materials located in the more than 10,000 libraries worldwide that participate in the OCLC Online Computer Center. The catalogue contains thousands of records of philatelic books and periodicals. The collections of the National Postal Museum Library and the Wineburgh Philatelic Library are included in WorldCat, but not those of the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) or other independent philatelic libraries. If you search WorldCat using the term “postage stamps,” almost 23,000 entries are returned. A column on the left side of the search results page allows you to refine your search in multiple ways. One of the most valuable features of WorldCat search results is that participating libraries that have the item are identified and are listed in order of the distance from your zip code (after you have entered it). If you click on a library, you are often connected to the

The Wisconsin Historical Society Library contains an extensive collection of philatelic books and periodicals. The library was honored for its contribution to the state’s philatelists with this cover at Wiscopex 2000.

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library’s automated library system and can then determine the status (whether it is on the shelf or checked out) of the item. How easy it is to access or obtain the item depends on the requirements of the libraries that own the item. If the library is located in or near your home community, access may be convenient. I am fortunate enough to have access to the South Central Library System in Wisconsin, the Library of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, all located in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Society Library has an excellent philatelic collection. If the library with an item you are interested in is more remote, it may be possible to obtain the item through interlibrary loan using your local public library.

major reasons for an extensive renovation of the Collectors Club in 2000. The Collectors Club Library is the second philatelic library to participate in the online union catalogue based around the APRL’s catalogue (the other being the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Research Library). This catalogue is located at www. stamps.org/InmagicGenie/opac. aspx. The books and pamphlets currently in the Collector Club Library’s Main Room can be searched using the APRL online catalogue. To do so, select “CCNY” from the “Location” drop-down selection list near the bottom of the online Catalogue Search form. As the Collectors Club Library committee updates and verifies other holdings, these will be incorporated into the APRL online catalogue.

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The Library of the Collectors Club of New York “fosters philatelic scholarship by acquiring, organizing, and disseminating philatelic information and knowledge to members of the Club, the philatelic community at large, and the general public.” This mission statement for the library can be found on the Collectors Club website at www.collectorsclub. org/Library.shtml. The information provided on the Collectors Club website for the library is excellent. The Collectors Club Library contains approximately 150,000 volumes, making it one of the largest philatelic libraries in the world. The growth of the library was one of the

Although philately and flower gardens don’t often go together, the recent addition of new property for the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library (RMPL) in Denver has led to this unusual combination. According to RMPL President Sergio Lugo, the garden and other landscaping are progressing under the direction of Denver Botanical Gardens master gardener (and “Europa” collector) Tonney Van Loij and a crew of four to six volunteers. The group has constructed flagstone walls, raised and filled flowerbeds, put in place brick-lined walkways, and planted ten to fifteen shrubs and trees. It is intended that these improvements

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provide an aesthetic complement for the daily visitors using the RMPL.

Scandinavian Collectors Club A beneficiary of the RMPL expansion reported on in the last issue of the PLR is the Scandinavian Collectors Club (SCC) Library, which has operated out of the RMPL for more than a decade. The SCC Library will gain an additional room in the original RMPL building that will add about 40 percent to the space available for its growing collection of Scandinavia philatelic printed and audio-visual materials. SCC has a vigorous lending program for its more than 700 members in the United States, Canada, and overseas. Thanks to Paul Albright of the SCC Library Committee for this information. The SCC Library Committee consists of six members who handle requests and catalogue new material for the library. You can learn more about the SCC Library at www.scconline.org .

Railway Mail Frank Scheer, Curator of the Railway Mail Service Library, in his continuing efforts to promote railway mail postal history, made a presentation about Railway Post Offices on the New York Central System (NYCS) at the annual convention of the NYCS Historical Society in May. If anyone is interested in Frank’s presentation, please contact him at fscheer@railwaymailservicelibrary. org.

Gini Horn We wish Gini Horn a wonderful retirement and thank her for her significant contribution to the development of the APRL. ***** I continue to maintain a webpage at www.libraryhistorybuff.com/philatelic-libraries.htm that contains Web links to philatelic libraries and other links that I mention in this column. Please send news items concerning philatelic libraries to Larry T. Nix at 3605 Niebler Lane, Middleton, WI 53562 or to nix@libraryhistorybuff. org.

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Philatelic Literature Contributors

APRL Expands Its Collection The following have made donations of philatelic literature to the American Philatelic Research Library in the First Quarter (January–March) 2010: Paul C. Abajian, APS Affiliate Coordination Committee, Clive Akerman, American Helvetia Philatelic Society, Amos Publishing Company, Dean Arnold, Steven J. Bahnsen, David A. Baker, Sam S. Beck, Robert J. Behnke, Ernest Bergman, LCDR Paul F. Bodling, Ted Bojanowski, British North America Philatelic Society, Mercer Bristow, John F. Butkis, J. Gilberto Gomez Cabrera, John Carbonara, Chicagopex 2009, Richard Chunko, Richard A. Colberg, Collectors Club Library, Charles W. P. Colomb, Joe H. Crosby, K. P. Devenis, C. David Eeles, Empire State Postal History Society, Sidney Epstein, David Feldman, Massimiliano Ferroni, Randall S. Frank, Franklin Freeman, Ernest E. Fricks, Robert A. Greenwald, Daniel Grobani, David Grossblat, Alejandro Grossmann, Joseph Hahn, William J. Hart, Don Heller, Robert G. Heyman, Dr. Terence Hines, Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, Alexander Ivakhno, Merritt Jenkins, Dr. Eric J. Karell, Jerome V. V. Kasper, Lee Katona, Curtis R. Kimes, Nicholas M. Kirke, William V. Kriebel, Chris Kulpinski. Robert E. Lamb, Eliot A. Landau, Silviu Landman, Romeo Lavarias, Hugh Lawrence, Ken Lawrence, William L. Lehr, Bob Leyshon, Library & Archives Canada Philatelic Collections, London Postal History Group, Fiorenzo Longhi, Dean W. Mario, Len McMaster, Gen. James L.D. Monroe, Gordon C. Morison, Chad Neighbor, Donald E. Neiman, Gerald E. Noeske, Charles J. O’Brien III, Raina O’Connor, Anders Olason, Charles J. Peterson, Earle F. Plyer, Peter W.W. Powell, Leif C. Ratliff, Stephen Reinhard, Louis E. Repeta, Dennis Ridings, James Riley, James Risner, Christopher Ryan, Ryukyu Philatelic Specialist Society, Wade Saadi, Dr. Roger G. Schnell, William R. Schultz, Scott Publishing Company, David Skipton, Dr. Chester J. Smith Jr., Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Colin W. Spong, Sports Philatelists International, Stuart Rossiter Trust, Yoram B. Szekely, Peter Thy, United Postal Stationery Society, Dr. Hal Vogel, Alan Warren, Ludwig J. Weinhofer, Jay M. Weiss, Mark H. Winnegrad, James Yeh, Hideo R.Yokota, and David S. Zubatsky.

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Philately in Scotland 1978–1979 Volume 1, Issues 1–4

by Brian J. Birch By 1978 my interest in philatelic literature had led me to subscribe to virtually all subscription-based (as opposed to society-based) philatelic magazines published in the United Kingdom. Having learned of the existence of a new magazine, Philately in Scotland, I duly subscribed, only to find a few months later that its short life came to an end following the publication of issue number four. Considering my passion for completing sets of everything, it is surprising to find that it was not until late 1980 that I eventually got around to writing to the publisher in order to obtain the missing first issue. Considering the lateness of my inquiry, it was hardly surprising when I was informed that the first issue was no longer available. My inquiry with the few literature dealers around drew a similar blank. Then, in 2001, I purchased a box of miscellaneous periodicals in Cavendish Philatelic Auctions’ annual literature sale. To my amazement and delight, it contained a solitary copy of Philately in Scotland, the long sought-after first issue.

An Introduction It will undoubtedly be simplest to permit the editor of Philately in Scotland to provide the Introduction to the magazine. Accordingly, the following paragraphs comprise the complete Editorial from the first issue:

Top: Philately in Scotland, 1932–34. Bottom: Philately in Scotland, 1978–79.

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Society). In 1932 it became the official magazine for a number of Scottish societies and completely changed its format, even to the extent of changing the title to ‘Philately in Scotland’. Although basically intended for local consumption, the magazine enjoyed a wide readership attracted mainly by the quality of its monthly articles. Nevertheless, it had only a short life span as it finally succumbed to financial pressures in 1934. During the entire period of publication the magazine was edited by Dr. R. C. Corbett. Possibly as monthly publications they tried too hard. Consequently ‘Philately in Scotland’ is revived as a quarterly with no intention or pretension of ever seriously competing with the Londonproduced periodicals. It is our intention to record and reflect philately in Scotland, but by the same token we will not be parochial. While giving space to articles and news with a strong Scottish flavour we aim to produce a serious, well balanced philatelic quarterly which readers will wish to retain for future reference. In this first issue we are very pleased to continue the connection with the old ‘Philately in Scotland’ in that two of our contributors, A. Bruce Auckland and J. H. Tierney, were both contributors almost 50 years ago. Similarly, among the advertisers Mssrs Ferris & Field advertised in the original magazine and are still with us now. We are most grateful to all contributors and advertisers and will strive to make the revived ‘Philately in Scotland’ worthy of its predecessors.

Bibliographic Details Title: Philately in Scotland A sub-title indicated that it incorporated The Scots Philatelist. Publisher: William Carson, who was also named as the Editor. Subscription: £2.50 per year Printer: Ayreshire Lithoprint, Prestwick, Scotland Size: 265mm high x 210mm wide The size of every issue varies by a few mm from the above, the final issue being 5mm larger in both directions. Paper: Glossy, coated paper, each issue having a thicker, unnumbered cover. May/July Aug/Oct Nov/Jan Feb/April Date: 1978 1978 1978/1979 1979 Issue No.: 1 2 3 4 Pages: Each issue contains thirty-two pages, excluding the covers. It is not at all unusual for philatelic periodicals to last for only a few short issues and then disappear. In fact, throughout philatelic history, the major122

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ity of periodicals seldom reach double figures with their issues. Even though Philately in Scotland lasted for a year (therefore completing its first volume), as a quarterly it only reached issue four. There is no hint in the magazine as to why it ceased publication. However, the letter from the proprietor, William Carson, informing me that they had long-since sent out their last copy of the first issue, added the following helpful information: The sale and distribution was by subscription only and the interest never materialised as indicated in the market research I did in advance. While prepared to meet a fairly heavy loss as a contribution to Scottish Philately, rising costs made it quite impracticable.

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Auckland, A. Bruce The Additional Halfpenny Marks of Edinburgh No. 1, pp. 24–25 Carson, William The British Occupation of the Faroe Islands 1940–1945 No. 1, pp. 22–23 Carson, William Scots Local Namestamps No. 2, pp. 8–10 Carson, William Village Postmarks of Malta No. 3, p. 14 Castle, Wilfred T.F. A Cyprus Centenary No. 1, pp. 12–14 Cossar, A. Espionage Forgeries 1918 No. 1, p. 17 Craig, Ian W. A Primitive Argyllshire Post Office No. 1, p. 9 Glenn, Paul P. An 1840 Scottish Letter Sheet No. 4, p. 28 Greenlaw, J.A. Dunbar Post Bus No. 4, p. 26 Grubb, W.B. W.R. Bray: “The Autograph King” [letter] No. 2, p. 11 Hillson, John The Small Queens of Canada No. 3, pp. 11–12 Hillson, John Fancy Cancels of Canada 1868–97 No. 4, p. 25 Mackay, James A. The Skeleton Postmarks of Scotland No. 1, pp. 18–21 Mackay, James A. Review of New Issues No. 2, pp. 15–18 Mackay, James A. Royal Highland Show No. 3, p. 15–18 Mackay, James A. Post Office and Pubs No. 4, p. 26 MacKenzie, George Missent to Glasgow No. 3, p. 12 MacKenzie, George Post Office in Portsonachan No. 3, pp. 22–25 Malcolm, Donald The Lanark Air Meeting 1910 No. 1, pp. 10–11 Malcolm, Donald The World’s Most Neglected Air Stamp No. 2, pp. 22–23 Malcolm, Donald The Graf Zeppelin 1928–1978 No. 3, pp. 8–10 Manners, John K. The Survivors: No. 1 of a Series No. 1, p. 7 Manners, John K. The Survivors: No. 2 of a Series — The Dotted Hoster No. 2, pp. 20–21 Manners, John K. The Survivors: No. 3 of a Series — Tay Pleasure Steamers No. 3, pp. 20–21 & front cover Manners, John K. The Survivors: No. 4 of a Series No. 4, p. 20 Manners, John K. The Brunswick Star-Experiment [letter] No. 2, p. 14 McGavin, R.H. Czechoslovakia: The Beginning No. 1, p. 8 Muir, J.R. A Picture Post Card to China No. 2, pp. 26–27 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 123

Needle, G.R. Page, E.R. Preston, Robert Scott, J.G.S. Sedgwick, W.A. Shirran, E.H. Stirling, David M. Stirling, David M. Stirling, David M. Tierney, J.H. Tierney, J.H. Tierney, J.H. Tierney, J.H. Tierney, J.H. Tierney, J.H.

Soldier Stamps of Switzerland No. 4, pp. 21–23 W.R. Bray: “The Autograph King” [letter] No. 2, p. 11 England–South Africa Airway No. 4, pp. 8–9 Skeleton Postmarks of Scotland [letter] No. 2, p. 14 Edinburgh Additional Halfpenny [letter] No. 2, p. 13 The Ayrshire Philatelic Society No. 2, p. 25 The Cinderella Connoisseur No. 2, pp. 12–13 The Cinderella Connoisseur No. 3, pp. 6–7 & 19 Cinderella Connoisseur No. 4, pp. 6–7 & 9 Mishap to the R.M.S. Lochiel: The Islay Mail Steamer No. 1, p. 6 Philatelic Memories of Long Ago No. 1, p. 27 Scottish Post Buses No. 2, pp. 23 & 25 Missent to Glasgow [letter] No. 2, p. 25 US Railway Post Office No. 3, p. 13 Postal History at the Museum of Transport No. 4, p. 10

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Air Mail England–South Africa No. 4, pp. 8–9 Air Mail Stamps World’s Most Neglected No. 2, pp. 22–23 Auction Report In the Saleroom No. 1, pp. 26–27 Auction Report In the Saleroom No. 2, p. 28 Auction Report In the Saleroom No. 3, pp. 27–28 Auction Report In the Saleroom No. 4, p. 27 Ayreshire Philatelic Society 40th Anniversary No. 2, p. 25 Biographies Bertram McGowan No. 2, pp. 6–7 Biographies General Sir Alfred Gaselee No. 2, pp. 26–27 Biographies W.R. Bray No. 2, pp. 26–27 Biographies W.R. Bray: “The Autograph King” No. 2, p. 11 Book Review Denmark: The Small Arms of 1882. A Study of the 5 Ore with Small Corner Letters — G. Henni, R. Murray & A. Shore No. 4, p. 24 Book Review Islands Postal History Series, Nos. 1–5 — James A. Mackay No. 4, p. 24 Book Review Railway Station Postmarks — D.P. Gowan No. 4, p. 24 Book Review T.P.O. A History of the Travelling Post Offices of Great Britain. Part 3: Scotland and Ireland — H.S. Wilson No. 4, p. 24 Book Reviews Scottish Postmarks — James A. Mackay No. 1, pp. 15 & 28 Book Reviews Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue No. 2, p. 19 Book Reviews Stanley Gibbons Overseas Volume 4 & Europe Volume 3 No. 2, p. 19 Book Reviews Stoneham Catalogue of British Stamps 1979 No. 3, p. 19 Book Reviews The Circular Namestamps of Scotland — James A. Mackay No. 1, p. 15 Book Reviews The Postal Markings of Scotland — 124

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Cachets Canada Canada Charge Marks Charge Marks Cinderellas Cinderellas Cinderellas Cinderellas Cinderellas Cyprus Czechoslovakia Faroe Islands Forgeries Forgeries France GPO Records Instructional Mark Instructional Marks Islay Mail Steamer Italy Lanark Aviation Week Letter Sheet Lorin & Maury’s Post Malta Moreau’s Post Nauru Nauru New Issues Newfoundland Obituaries Portsonachan Post Office Artifacts Post Offices Post Buses Post Buses Postmarks Postmarks Postmarks Postmarks Postmarks

James A. Mackay No. 2, p. 19 Tay Pleasure Steamers No. 3, pp. 20–21 & front cover Fancy Cancels 1868–1897 No. 4, p. 25 Small Queens No. 3, pp. 11–12 Additional Halfpenny Marks of Edinburgh No. 1, pp. 24–25 Additional Halfpenny Marks of Edinburgh No. 2, p. 13 Cinderella Connoisseur No. 3, pp. 6–7 & 19 Cinderella Connoisseur No. 4, pp. 6–7 & 9 Eaton Paper Company Poster Stamps No. 2, p. 13 Stadt Express – Berlin No. 2, p. 12 Swiss Soldier Stamps No. 4, p. 21–23 A Cyprus Centenary No. 1, pp. 12–14 Scout Post Stamps 1918 No. 1, p. 8 British Occupation 1940–1945 No. 1, pp. 22–23 Germania Forgeries of 1918 No. 1, p. 17 Queen Victoria 10 Shilling, Specimen No. 4, p. 20 Paris Commune, 1871 Local Posts No. 3, pp. 6–7 & 19 Editorial No. 2, p. 1 Missent to Glasgow

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Missent to Glasgow

No. 3, p. 12

Mishap to the R.M.S. Lochiel 1896 Wedding Cinderella

No. 1, p. 6 No. 4, p. 6

Lanark Air Meeting 1910 No. 1, pp. 10–11 Scottish Pre-printed Letter Sheet of 1842 No. 4, p. 28 Paris Commune, 1871 Village Postmarks Paris Commune, 1871 Paquebot Handstamps Postal Use of Nauru Stamps Review Alcock & Brown Surcharge Margaret Jahr Postal History

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Postal History at the Museum of Transport No. 4, p. 10 Post Offices and Pubs No. 4, p. 26 Dunbar Post Bus No. 4, p. 26 Scottish No. 2, pp. 23 & 25 Brunswick Star No. 2, p. 14 Drimnin 1899 No. 1, p. 9 Edinburgh Newspaper Branch No. 1, p. 7 Hoster Machine Cancels No. 2, pp. 20–21 More Scottish Local Name Stamps No. 4, p. 9 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 125

Postmarks Postmarks Postmarks Postmarks Railway Stamps Reminiscences Scotland Scottish Philatelic Congress Scottish Philatelic Congress Scottish Philatelic Magazines Scottish Postal History Society Scottish Postal History Society Speculation Speculation in Switzerland Tay Pleasure Steamers Tramway Stamps United States of America Zeppelin

Royal Highland Show Scot’s Local Namestamps Skeleton Postmarks of Scotland Skeleton Postmarks of Scotland Glasgow, Barrhead & Kilmarnock Joint Railway Philatelic Memories of Long Ago Post Towns and Sub-offices

No. 3, pp. 15–18 No. 2, pp. 8–10 No. 1, pp. 18–21 No. 2, p. 14 No. 4, pp. 6–7 No.1, p. 27 No. 4, pp. 11–19

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Editorial Formation Inaugural Meetings Editorial Editorial Soldier Stamps

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Cachets No. 3, pp. 20–21 & front cover Stirling and Bridge of Allan Tramways No. 4, pp. 7 & 8 Railway Post Office Graf Zeppelin 1928–78

No. 3, p. 13 No. 3, pp. 8–10

Epilogue Normally, at this point I would cease my endeavors with this publication and simply send the typescript off to the Editor of the Philatelic Literature Review to see whether they had any copies of Philately in Scotland in the library. It turned out that the Library owned a complete set of the 1932–34 volumes of the same name, mentioned in the first Editorial, but none of the 1978–79 edition. In order to ensure that a set was available for reference in North America, I have donated my issues to the American Philatelic Research Library.

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Collector Biographical Sketches in The Virginia Philatelist by Len McMaster As cover collectors or postal historians, we frequently examine both the addressee and who sent the piece of mail. Was it commercial or personal mail, from a known businessman, a historical or political figure, a stamp dealer or another collector sent to another business, a colleague, a friend or family member, or other loved one? Not only is this important in understanding the context of the mail itself, but it may help distinguish a purely philatelic cover from personal or commercial mail sent in the normal course of communication. While I do not want to enter a discussion of what constitutes a “philatelic cover,” both the individual sending the mail as well as the addressee are important to our research. While philatelic journals typically contain the names of dealers and, from time-to-time the names of collectors, it is unusual to find more than a brief note about the individual. The first four volumes of The Virginia Philatelist (published 1897–1901), however, contain biographical sketches of several collectors. When August Dietz started publishing The Virginia Philatelist, he profiled stamp collectors in each issue, many of them members of the new Virginia Philatelic Association (VPA). In the first issue he stated that the purpose of The Virginia Philatelist was “to give Virginia her first representative philatelic magazine; to compile and issue a complete and reliable directory of Virginia collectors and dealers, and to foster the interests of Philately in general.”1 True to this objective, more than fifty collectors were profiled in the first four volumes before this practice was ended. 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 127

While most of the individuals profiled collected Confederate stamps, their other collecting interests varied widely, including general United States, U.S. revenues, and British Colonies. In addition to discussing their collecting interests, there is typically information about their birthplace, education, military service, and occupation — the latter including the fields of banking, farming, publishing, sales, law, medicine, and civil engineering. In addition to members of the VPA, many other collectors were profiled. The September 1898 issue profiles five of their correspondents from New York to Texas and from Canada to Australia; the May 1898 issue profiles two members of the Southern Philatelic Association (SPA) of Texas; the February 1900 issue profiles six officers of the Postal Card Society of America (PCSA); and the March 1901 issue profiles two additional correspondents from London and Turks Island. Hiram Deats of New Jersey, secretary of the American Philatelic Association at the time, was profiled in the August 1900 issue; and August Dietz himself was profiled in Collector Ahern, William S. Allemong, J.E. Anderson, John T., Jr. Anthony, Beulah Kerr Arnold, W.D. Askew, Henry G. Baptist, Frank Bradley, Royal Bennett Bradley, Royal Bennett 128

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the September 1900 issue. The only woman to be profiled was Miss Beulah Anthony in the December 1900 issue. In the October 1899 issue it was announced that The Virginia Philatelist and The Lone Star State Philatelist were being consolidated and that Roy Bradley, president of the Southern Philatelic Association, would become associate editor.2 Mr. Bradley also was profiled in that issue. Up until this time the biographical sketches all appear to have been written by August Dietz, but starting with the November 1899 issue Messrs. Dietz and Bradley seem to have shared that duty. With the September 1900 issue Bradley took over as editor, having acquired ownership of the Virginia Philatelic Publishing Company from August Dietz, editor, and Frank Sterns, business manager. All-in-all there were fifty-nine collectors from around the world profiled in The Virginia Philatelist from the September 1897 to the August-September 1901 issue. The following table lists the collectors in alphabetical order, citing the issue of their biographical sketch. Date Feb-98 Aug-98 Nov-00 Dec-00 Feb-00 Jan-00 Sep-98 Sep-98 Oct-99

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Bryant, Guv A. Chapman, Henry A. Christian, Thomas Courtice, John J. Crighan, Herbert A. Davis, Charles Price Deats, Hiram Edmund Dickinson, Clyude Allen Dietz, August Dodge, J.F. Doeblin, E. Fenton, H. Frith, Reginald C. Fuessel, Fred G. Gafford, T.H. Gerlich, Emil Gibb, Archie G. Griffin, J.G.

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Jannasch, Oscar Kerns, Franklin L. Kessler, Robert Kissinger, C.W. Knotts, J.H. Lecky, Wm. Ralston Lohmeyer, Adolph Lyons, Edward P., Jr. MacDonnell, Wm. A. Mayer, John F. Morse, John N. Moser, C.F.W. Nelson, R.S. Outer, Peter Den Paalzow, John Patterson, Irving E. Percival, J.W. Peyser, Mark W., M.D. Pierce, Wm. S.F. Schott, Henry Scott, Henry Chatard, Jr. Seibert, John C. Shelton, William Penick Smith, Wm. R. Spott, V.E.A. Stearns, Franklin Stowell, J.W. Strause, N.P. van der Lann, Jacob L.Z. Waring, Charles Weckert, John C. Wither, N. Haskell

Nov-99 Jan-98 May-99 Jun/Jul-01 Feb-99 Oct-00 Feb-00 May-98 Sep-98 Sep-97 Feb-00 Jun-98 Mar-99 Apr-00 Dec-97 Sep-98 Deb-01 Dec-98 Jun-00 Jun-99 Nov-98 Oct-97 Apr-98 Oct-98 Nov-97 Dec-99 Aug/Sep-01 Mar-98 Jan-01 Jul-99 Jul-98 Feb-00

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Winter Book Wins Large Gold at London 2010 It is a rare honor for a work of Literature to win a Large Gold award at a prestigious international stamp show like London 2010, but that is what just happened with Understanding Transatlantic Mail by Richard F. Winter. Now you, too, can unlock the secrets of 19th-century maritime postal rate markings with this highly anticipated second volume of Understanding Transatlantic Mail. The richly illustrated volume discusses “transatlantic mail” in relation to the North Atlantic region and covers five mail systems that crisscrossed the Atlantic: Hamburg, Belgium, Netherlands, North German Union, and Switzerland mails. Volume 2 examines each mail system in detail before going into the new postal conventions with the United States: Hamburg (1857), Belgium (1859), and Netherlands, North German Union and Switzerland (1868). Mail transported across the Atlantic prior to this time was sent under postal conventions discussed in Volume 1. The author has been Associate Editor and Editor of the Foreign Mails Section of The Chronicle of the U.S. Classics Postal Issues, the journal of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, for twenty-four years. He was elected a member of the International Association of Phila-

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telic Experts for Transatlantic Mails and has signed the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society’s Distinguished Philatelist scroll in 1996. Winter received the American Philatelic Society’s John N. Luff Award for Distinguished Philatelic Research (1999), the American Philatelic Research Library’s J.C.M. Cryer Research Award (2001), and the Lichtenstein Award of the Collectors Club New York (2003). In 2008 he signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, regarded as the world’s preeminent philatelic honor. Understanding Transatlantic Mail, Vol. 2, by Richard F. Winter, RDP (Bellefonte, PA: The American Philatelic Society, 2009), hardbound with dust jacket, 8½ x 11 inches, 600 pages, richly illustrated, extensive index and bibliography, CD with color illustrations is a must for your philatelic library! Available for $76 (APS member price), $95 (non-member price) from the American Philatelic Society, 100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, PA 16823; telephone 814-933-3803; website www.stamps.org/services/ser_Marketplace.htm

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Exploring the Periodicals Collection:

The Collector’s Companion by Bonny Farmer One of the pleasures of working “down the hall” from the APRL is the occasional chance discovery of a hitherto overlooked nineteenth-century philatelic periodical. One such short-lived venture was The Collector’s Companion; Issued Monthly in the Interest of Philatelists. The first issue appeared in January 1885. The articles were by such notables as “Correos” (“The Postage Stamps of Tolima [Colombia]”), “Raphael” (“A Collector Quizzed”), and “Phranque” (“Lubec [Germany] and Its Stamps”). Somehow one cannot avoid the suspicion that the youthful editor (as they almost always were in those days) might have laid up a store of aliases for this very purpose. The first issue was eight pages long (5½ x 8½ inches). An annual subscription in the United States or Canada was 25 cents, foreign countries 40 cents. Individual copies could be had for 5 cents. The editor and publisher was Jerome H. Raymond with an office located at 162 Centre Street, Chicago. His plans were ambitious: We desire to call the attention of advertisers to this paper as a medium for reaching collectors who will be likely to buy. The circulation of this number is 1200, and we intend to increase it just as soon as warrantable. The next number will probably have 1500 circulation, or possibly 2000. The Companion is sent to active collectors, and not to those who have laid aside their collections. Although stated that

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ers not to have any dealings whatever with either Charles H. Mekeel, Everett M. Hackett, The Carson Stamp Co., or the publishers of “The Philatelic Journal of America,” under any name whatever.... Philatelists beware. The issue also included a “Correspondents’ Column” and “Notices of Exchange,” in addition to ads, a small dealers directory, and an assortment of short social notices. The second issue promptly appeared in February. Numbered sequentially, it too was eight pages in length. This month “Correos” was writing about “The Postage Stamps of Portugal,” while “Raphael” addressed “Collectors and Their Collections”: In the end, stamp collecting teaches habits of neatness, patience, precision, care, and a sense of the beautiful, which is so often wanting in young people, especially so in large cities; it also guards against color blindness, by teaching the different colors at an early age, and by a constant comparison of colors. A new columnist, “X.Y.Z.”, appears with an article on “Philatelic Societies”: If one or two collectors in each locality of city would set their minds on organizing a society, and would talk it up to their companions, we think we would hear of

societies springing up everywhere ... and Philately would soon take its place where it belongs, as the Bayonne Philatelist says, “a science upheld by statesmen and savants. The editor warns readers once again “not to have anything to do with C.H. Mekeel ... a fraud of the first water.” He also notes that they had received “numerous sketches” in response to his announcement of a one dollar prize for the best article received during January and February, but that, unfortunately, “the majority of them are not quite up to standard.” The third issue appeared in March and led off with the conclusion of the “Correos” article on Portuguese stamps. “Alpha” now appears on the scene to write about “The U.S. Dept. Stamps,” while a piece by “N.A.T.” offered “A Few Hints to Beginners”: The best way to make a collection of stamps is to get them as far as possible without buying. The reason I give for not buying stamps, is that when you obtain them either by getting them yourself from old letters, or by exchange with a friend, you take more interest in them than if you had purchased them. Persons always take a more lively interest in anything which has put them to some trouble to secure. The first author with an identifiable name, William Fisher Cornell, contributes a perspective titled “An 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 135

Outline of Philately.” After two months of castigating Mekeel, in March the editor takes up cudgels against Scott & Co. for including spaces for “Hamburg Locals” in their International Albums. A firm that will deliberately make spaces in an album for such well-known counterfeits as these in question, must have some interest in the sale of the “Humbugs,” and if Scott & Co. sells these pieces of paper for genuine stamps, they are no better than the host of Boston worthies who counterfeit stamps for a living, such as S. Allen Taylor, and his accomplice, Randall.

advanced collector obtains from his collection can not be imagined by anyone who has not had the experience. The more a person learns about Philately, the more fascinated he becomes with it. So let us urge all young collectors to persevere in their collecting, and in after years they will reap the benefit of their early loyalty to the cause. However, a paragraph or so later he is back in form: The Political Windbag of St. Louis, facetiously called by some the Philatelic Journal of America, must be taking its summer vacation, or, — horrid thought — can it be that it has departed forevermore? No. 3 (May) was the last to appear up to going to press. Where, oh where can it be!

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Those persons who drop Philately in summer are not Philatelists, they merely chase the phantom of stamp collecting during part of the year to kill time. No true Philatelist suffers the heat of summer to separate him from his darling bride, Philately.... Shall we disgrace her fair name by deserting her through the long summer, to be uncared for and alone? No! No! a thousand times No!

Philatelic papers; don’t crowd two issues into one and then excuse yourselves by saying it was too hot to work. Don’t do it — it is not manly. Philatelic societies; don’t adjourn for the summer. It is not proper nor in accordance with the interest of Philately which you claim to possess.

In November the staff increased to two, when the magazine added a business manager, W.E. Cowles:

As the magazine found its stride, the articles became meatier. By September they had begun to include philatelic profiles in addition to regular signed articles: such as “Surcharged Stamps” by O.S. Hellwig. The editor remained a tad cranky, as evidenced in his October column, which started out:

Mr. Cowles will have the pleasure of pacifying the printers, while the editor will sit at his desk, “serene as a summer’s morn,” deciding, to the best of his ability, which items and articles at hand, will best grace the editorial waste basket.

St. Louis has always been noted for stealing ideas from

The “Correspondents’ Column” remained a lively mix of practical information

Chicago, and recent instances, in Philatelic affairs, of the faculty of the drowsy hamlet, are not lacking. “Our American Youth” has come out in a new dress, copied entirely from the Companion.

Can you give me any information about the 6-pence English of the 1870–3 issue, surcharged 6d. with a large numeral and small letter in red ink? E.E. Brown and philatelic passion:

Last issue, May 1886.

I avail myself of the privilege of your Correspondent’s Column to contradict a statement which I cannot but regard as wilfully untrue. W.E. Skinner, of Lynn [Massachusetts], says that he had Mr. Emory of Fitchburg, arrested for libel, and threatens another philatelist with the same punishment. Lest any person 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 137

should believe this assertion, I take occasion to say that it is a lie throughout, as Mr. Emory was never arrested on any pretext whatever. Mr. Skinner once threatened to sue him for damages because he [Skinner] was exposed as a dealer in counterfeit stamps, but Mr. Emory defied him to go to the law, and Skinner backed down. This person has tried to slander an honest publisher, and his stories are unworthy of a philatelist. Let no one fear his threats of suit, as he is only a boy. W.K. Jewett

to the November inquiry about the 1870–3 surcharges: For the benefit of Mr. E.E. Brown, who inquires in regard to a stamp he has, would say that the English stamps of 1870, 3d and 6d, were surcharged 3d and 6d respectively, in large figures. It was found necessary to do this to avoid mistakes; as they were both of the same color. O.S.H. And the editor took on Queen Victoria: Look at the stamps of Australia ... or any of the English colonies, and the eye is met by the unattractive bust of her Majesty as she appeared a half century ago, and which, we imagine, looks about as much like her as it does like the Empress of China — if there is such a personage.

The November issue also included the first advertisement with graphics, a training manual for a “Broom Brigade” drill team that would encompass “The most novel, attractive, and entertaining exhibition of graceful military movements performed by young ladies or gentlemen.” Two vaguely female figures (they’re wearing dresses) and a one male are shown with their brooms at various “arms” positions. The December issue brought with it the conclusion to a thoughtful look at “Locals” by Dr. W. H. Mitchell (profiled in September), one on the study of postage stamps, “Stamp Study” by W.H. Pope, and another on “Stamp Collecting” by J.M. Chute. The first illustrated advertisment to appear There is also a response in in the Companion was a training manual for a “Broom Brigade” drill team. the Correspondents Column 138

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Perhaps his ire was aroused by a squib reprinted from an unnamed British journal: There is not a legitimate stamp company in America. The so-called “Cos.” are composed of one small boy each, who thinks he can astonish the world by a tremendous business in stamps. One fellow who is now in St. Louis, is said to have now not less than ten such “Cos.,” and has “skipped” several cities, being a “deadbeat.” Of course, considering the ongoing philatelic sniping between the

Chicago-based Companion and various St. Louis operations, this may be a spurious swipe at the latter city rather than a true quotation; at the very least it is a suspiciously convenient reference. The year 1886 began well. The January cover reflects a raise in subscription rates to 50 cents and notes that The Collector’s Companion; a Monthly Philatelic Magazine is published by The Collector’s Companion Company. P.O. Box 419, Chicago. The masthead claims a “Guaranteed Circulation” of 3,000 monthly. The March number was a bumper issue with 17 pages of text and 14 pages of ads, including my personal favorite:

The second edition of the “Broom Brigade” training manual shifted its focus to all-female drill teams. The phiiatelic connection remains obscure.

ATTENTION! The second edition of BARNETT’S BROOM BRIGADE TACTICS, ILLUSTRATED is now ready; in addition to school of the soldier, manual of the broom, school of the company, etc., it includes the FAN DRILL. Price 25c postpaid, or 5 for $1.00. You can raise more money in your church or society by getting up a Broom Drill or Fan Drill than a dozen other entertainments. The novelty of the thing to see young ladies drilling with fans or brooms and dustpans is the drawing attraction. Get one up.

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Address Lieut. JOS. H. BARNETT, 261 Hoyne Ave., Chicago, Ill. But the April 1886 issue was only eight pages and the masthead held only one name: W. Elbridge Cowles, Publisher and Proprietor. Jerome Raymond’s final editorial followed: With a very considerable feeling of regret I am called upon to sever my connection with the Collector’s Companion, having been at its helm since its inception; but for several months past outside matters have so pressed upon me that I have been able to devote but a very small portion of my time to the Companion, and even then with other and more important duties constantly worrying me. For this and other reasons, which it is unnecessary to detail here, I have come to the conclusion that I can best serve the interest of the readers and patrons of the Companion, as well as my own, by retiring, for the present at least, from Philatelic Journalism.... A message from the new proprietor, former business manager Elbridge Cowles, promises that “The May number will be the finest thing in the shape of philately ever published.” When the May issue appeared,

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however, it was a poor thing of only six pages, although it began with a rousing call to form a “National Organization of Philatelists.” The organizing committee, based in Chicago, listed six major points in favor, summarized below: 1. “In Union there is strength.” 2. “ A national organization will give Philatelists a national recognition [which will] have a tendency to add recruits to our ranks.” 3. “Promoting a more friendly intercourse between collectors, and permitting a freer interchange of ideas and opinions.” 4. “It will be able to cope with and hold in check the dealers in counterfeit stamps, who are now the pest of collectors.” 5. “It will enable collectors, by combining, to purchase their stamps at a considerable lower rate.” 6. “If for no other reason than that our fellow collectors across the water are so successfully organized and we dislike to be out done in such matters....” There is no specific editorial, although a few “notes” appear below the masthead, including a waspish: “By the way, Our American Youth seems rightly named. It certainly presents quite a juvenile appearance.” There are a few other social notes and a page and a half of correspondence, and that is that. The advertised June issue does not appear. A lively philatelic publication has ceased to exist.

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Prisoner of War and Internee Mail, Part III by Ellen Peachey There are many specialty areas in philately, but most of these fall within one of two broad categories: They either focus on geographic areas or belong to topical collecting. In the 4th Quarter 2009 PLR we introduced the first of a series of articles that will provide the researcher with a listing of book titles in the American Philatelic Research Library that cross all geographic categories and are postal history related. The first subject we chose to address was Prisoner of War and Internee Mail. As part of our search for literature that discusses this field, in addition to the straightforward, obvious titles, we pulled together many books that contain pertinent information but are considered to belong to related areas of study — such as Censored Mail or Military Mail — or even to a less obvious topic altogether — such as the Red Cross, shipping (i.e., hospital ships), etc. The alphabetically listed headings are primarily geographic regions but also include some broader subject areas. Part I covered book titles that could be found under the subheads “Air Mail” to “Russo-Japanese War.” Part II (1st Quarter 2010) concluded this list of books with “Saint Helena” to “Yugoslavia.” Also included in Part II were two small subheads of other material held by the APRL: “POW Auction Catalogues” and “POW Exhibits.” Part III offers a list of articles related to Prisoner of War and Internee Mail (under the subheads “Air Mail” to “Worldwide”) that can be found in the APRL. In addition to their availability in the library stacks, photocopies of these articles are available for a small processing fee. If you have a philatelic field of study that you would like to see indexed in this fashion in the PLR, please let us know. Our goal is to make the contents of the APRL as accessible as possible to the philatelic researcher. Initially, at least, we would prefer topics that cross boundaries, so that we can address the interests of as many people as possible.

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Years in Australian Camp Are Recalled,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 102, No.12 (December 1988).

AIR MAIL “Air Mail Letters for Prisoners of War” [World War II], Linn’s (May 18, 1944). “Airmail Letter Card for Prisoners of War” [World War II], Stamps (US) (May 20, 1944): 276. Ramkissoon, Reuben A., and Charles Berg. “Aerogrammes: A Brief Historical Introduction,” COMPEX (May 25–27, 1990).

AUSTRALIA Breckon, Richard. “Australian Commonwealth Postal Rates 1901–1966. Part 5: Forces Mail and Miscellaneous Services” [Part 5 of 5], Australian Philatelist, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1989). Derfel, Greg. “Seaman from the KOROMAN,” Black Swan, Vol. 10, No. 6 (June 2001): 68–69. Howard, Don. “Italian POWs in Australia During the Second World War,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 1993). Simmonds, Bill. “World War I Prisoners of War and Civilian Intern Camps in Australia,” The Informer, Vol. 54, No. 2 (2nd Qtr 1990). Speirs, George. “A Time to Remember; German POW’s

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Watson, Gary. “World War I Mail to Australian POW Camp,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 68, Whole No. 3495 (October 30, 1995).

BARBADOS Bayley, Colin H. “WW I Transfer of POWs,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 1977): 99–103.

BELGIUM Callens, Roger. “German POW Camps in Belgium” [World War II], Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Fall 2005).

BERMUDA Group, Ralph. “Bermuda WWII P.O.W. Letters,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 (June 1975): 70. Hemp, Richard. “Bermuda WWI POW Cover,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 1974): 38–39.

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BRITISH GUIANA Bayley, Colin H. “WW I Transfer of POWs,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 1977): 99–103.

BRITISH WEST AFRICA Brown, A.J. “Prisoners of War Camps — West African Force” [Italian POWs WWII], Cameo, Vol. 4, No. 6 (July 1992). Martin, Jeremy. “POW Camps in West Africa in World War 2,” Cameo, Vol. 7, No. 2 (January 2002): 128. —. “Italian POWs in West Africa during World War 2,” Cameo, Vol. 7, No. 2 (January 2002): 128–131.

BULGARIA Galitz, Earl H. “Balkan Wars: Ottoman Prisoners in Bulgaria,” Tughra Times, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 1996).

CANADA “Mail Arrangements for Prisoners of War and Internees Held in Canada During World War II,” Canadian Philatelist, Vol. 33, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1982). Bayley, Colin H. “WWI Transfer of POWs,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 1977): 99–103. Hertzberg, M. “Postal Markings of World War II” [illus], Postal Markings, Vol. 9, No. 7 (January 1940): 8. Miller, George H. “Canadian Prisoner-of-War Mail,” Stamps (US), (October 4, 1941). Morgan, Maj. Ian C. “POW Camps — Canada,” War Cover Club, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Apr/May 1978). Pritlove, Ed. “Canadian Prisoner of War Franks,” War Cover Club, Vol. 18, No. 5 (Jun/Jul 1978). Sharpe, L.W. “Prisoner of War Mail — Canada” [German POWs],

Germany Philatelic Society Third Reich Study Group Bulletin, Vol. 8, Nos. 3–4 (Jul-4th Qtr 1973). —. “Prisoner of War Mail — Canada” [German POWs], Germany Philatelic Society Third Reich Study Group Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1st Qtr 1974/75). —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 1: POW Mail During WWII], BNA Topics, Vol. 9, No. 3 (March 1952): 600 —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 2: Stationery Types WWII], BNA Topics, Vol. 9, No. 4 (April 1952): 107. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 3: Postal Cards], BNA Topics, Vol. 9, No. 6 (June 1952): 149. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 4: Cancellations and Franks; List of Camps], BNA Topics, Vol. 9, No. 9 (October 1952): 261. —. “Prisoner of War Mail [Part 5: WW II Cancellations], BNA Topics, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1953): 5. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 6: Franking Labels], BNA Topics, Vol. 10, No. 2 (February 1953): 37. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 7: Censorship], BNA Topics, Vol. 10, No. 4 (April 1953): 101. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 8: Censor Marks], BNA Topics, Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 1953): 145. —. “Prisoner of War Mail” [Part 9: Canadian POW Mail], BNA Topics, Vol. 10, No. 7 (Jul/Aug 1953): 202.

CANAL ZONE Metzler, H.A. “Canal Zone Censorship in World War I,” War Cover Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct/ Dec 1982): 6–12.

CHILE Moorehouse, Brian. “First World War POW Cover From Chile,” Mainsheet, Vol. 9, Whole No. 34 (April 1984).

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Newport, O.W. “Quiriquina [Island] Prisoner-of-War Camp,” Postal History (UK), Whole No. 277 (March 1996).

CHINA Bowker, H.F., and F.O. Brasch. “World War II Prisoner of War Card,” China Clipper, Vol. 31, No. 3 (March 1967).

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA “Prisoner of War Letters,” Stamp and Cover Collectors Review (July 1938). Cooper, Colonel Ashley. “Collecting the Confederate States of America,” COMPEX (May 1988). Dietz, August A. “Southern ‘Prisonerof-War’ Letters,” Stamp & Cover Collectors’ Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 1938). Gallagher, Scott. “Cover Corner” [Andersonville], Chronicle, Vol. 31, No. 4 (November 1979): 293–294. Green, Brian. “Andersonville, Georgia Prisoner of War Cover — The Saga of Darius Starr, United States Sharpshooter,” American Philatelic Congress Book #43 (1977). —. “Prisoner of War Covers. Liggon’s Tobacco Warehouse,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 38, No. 5 (January 1976): 299–300. Harrison, Galen D. “A Civilian Flag of Truce Cover That Became a POW Cover,” Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jul/Aug 1991): 140–142. —. “Ligon’s Prison (Two Covers for One Letter)” [Bibliography], Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 43, No. 5 (Sep/Oct 1998): 180–187, 204. Hollowbush, F.A. “An Original Find of Prisoner-of-War Covers,” Stamps (US) (September 23, 1944): 447. Jaronski, S.T., and G. Gwynne (editors). “Confederate Questions and Answers” [Florida], 144

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Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 1989): 19–22. Jaronski, Stefan T. “New Danville, Virginia POW Covers Discovered,” Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Mar/Apr 1993): 51–54. Kaufmann, Patricia A. “The Immortal 600,” American Stamp Dealer & Collector (April 2009): 19–25. Kohlhepp, J.D. “Blauvelt Correspondence, Part III: A Free Franked Letter” [Richmond, VA], Chronicle, Vol. 29. No. 2 (May 1977): 96–98. Laurence, Michael. “South-to-North Civil War Prisoner’s Cover,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 24 (August 1987): 3. MacBride, Van Dyk. “Prisoner-of-War Covers of Morris Island and Fort Pulaski,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 59, No. 8 (May 1946): 678– 689. —. “Early and Late Prisoner-of-War Covers,” Stamps (US) (December 30, 1944): 448. Milgram, James. “Prison Covers and Mail,” Confederate Philatelist (January 1970). Monroe, James L.D., Capt., USN (Ret). “Old Capitol Prison ‘Black Jack’,” Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Jul/Aug 1993): 151–155. —. “Camp Boyd Prison Discovery,” Bibliography Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 43, No. 3 (May/Jun 1998): 101–102. Shenfield, Lawrence L. “Why Collectors Like U.S. Confederate Prisoner-of-War Covers,” Stamps (US) (April 8, 1944): 50; Correction: Stamps (April 29, 1944): 161. Tickell, Ian. “Condition: Very Poor ... Postal History: Extremely Fine!” Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 36, No. 6, Nov/Dec 1991): 223–225.

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Wishnietsky, Benjamin. “Unusual Confederates” [Fort McHenry], Confederate Philatelist, Vol. 34, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1989): 209–211.

CURACAO Baggaley, R.H. “More about the Curacao Prisoner of War Stamps,” Stamps (US) (January 29, 1944): 160. Kessler, F.W. “Dealers Denounce Handling of Curacao ‘Prison of War’ Stamps,” Stamps (US) (January 29, 1944): 158; (July 1, 1944): 34. —. “Prisoner of War Stamps,” Mekeel’s Weekly Stamp News (January 31, 1944): 70.

CYPRUS Ertughrul, Jeff. “Cyprus: The Turkish Prisoners of War,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 177 (March 1992).

CZECHOSLOVAKIA “German Capitulation POW Mail From Czechoslovakia,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 33, No. 10 (October 1982). Santangelo, Piero. “Camps in Bohemia and Moravia — 1914– 1918,” Czechoslovak Specialist, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 2007): 3–9. Vostek, Miroslav. “P.O.W. Camps on the Territories of Bohemia and Moravia,” COMPEX (May 1–3, 1981): 109–114.

DENMARK Lenz, Werner. “Moskauer Hilfskomite fuer Kriegsggangene in Kopenhagen,” DBZ (Deutsche Briefmarken – Zeitung) (December 1984).

EGYPT Bertram, Robin. “Information Sought — Internees in Egypt” [letter], Fil-Italia, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2001/2002): 39.

FRANCE Ablard, Claude “Les Prisonniers de Guerre en Allemagne,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 274 (3rd Qtr 1993). —. “Les Prisonniers de Guerre en Allemagne, “ Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 278 (3rd Qtr 1994): 32. Albaret, Laurent. “Prisonnier de Guerre (1940–1945),” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 283 (1995): Supplement. Annet, M. “Cachets de la Poste Militaire Allendande dans les Camps de Prisonniers de Guerre (1939–1945),” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 255 (4th Qtr 1989). Bortserin, Philippe. “Tribulations d’une Prisoner de Guerre” [Alsace], La Philatelie Francaise, Whole No. 490 (April 1995). Chauvin, Francois. “Prisonniers de Guerre,” Le Monde des Philatelistes, Whole No. 494 (March 1995). —. “Penser aux Chers Absents: Manifestations Philateliques en Faveur des Prisonniers de Guerre,” Timbres Magazine (April 2008): 30–34. Cohn, Ernst M. “The First ‘AirFaring’ POWs,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 101, No. 5 (May 1987): 461. Garcin, N. “Le Courrier des Prisoniers Francais en Angleterre sous le Directoire en le Premier Empire,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole Nos. 239–241 (May 1984/85). Gillet. “Prisoniers de Guerre Francais en Grande-Bretagne,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 261 (2nd Qtr 1990). Jamet, C. “Courrier des Camps de Prisonniers,” L’Echo de la

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Timbrologie, Whole No. 1673 (March 1995). Jay, Barrie. “Civilian Prisoner of War Mail 1793–1815,” Postal History, Whole No. 295 (September 2000): 79–82. Kaufmann, J. “Seule Evasion Reussie du Camp de Concen,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 281 (2nd Qtr 1995). Lutzq. “Prisonniers de Guerre 1870–71,” Documents Philateliques, Whole Nos. 27–28 (1966). Michaud, and Bertraud Sinais. “Prisonniers Allemands en France” [1945-], Timbroscopie, Whole No. 155 (March 1998). Pauvert, Y. “Camp de Prisonniers Allemands a La Roche-sur-Yon, en 1944–47,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 252 (1st Tri 1989). Perruchon, J. “Frontstalag 232 de Lucon,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 306 (3rd Qtr 2001): 32–34. —. “Frontstalag de Surgeres” [Charente-Maritime], Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 308 (1st Qtr 2002): 18. —. “Prisonniers Guere 1939/45,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 295 (4th Qtr 1998 4): 37. Reader, Roy E. “Paris Centralisateur,” France and Colonies Philatelist, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 1994). Sinais, Bertrand. “Francois Mitterrand et les Prisonniers,” Timbres, No. 6 (October 2000): 41–42. —. “Une Correspondance de Prisonnier de Guerre,” La Philatelie Francaise, Whole No. 454 (April 1992). Swain, A. “Petain POW Stationery,” Journal of the France and Colonies Philatelic Society, UK, Vol. 36, No. 1 (March 1986). Waugh, William M. “Prisoner of War Letter from Sedan 1870,” France 146

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and Colonies Philatelist, Vol. 44, No. 3 (July 1989).

GERMAN EAST AFRICA Clark, Bill. “The Tragedy of the Great War for the Schmidt Family,” B.E.A., Bulletin of the East Africa Study Circle, Vol. 14, Whole No. 92 (May 2009): 120–123. Farrant, Michael G., and Erich E. Schlieper. “German East Africa: Internment Camps 1914–1917; An Update,” Vorlauffer, Whole No. 147 (June 2007).

GERMANY “Polish Prisoners of War Camp Posted in Germany During WW II,” SEPAD (September 29–October 1, 1978). “POW Camp Post World War I,” Germany Philatelic Review (March 1953). “Prisoner of War Mail Direct from Germany,” Linn’s Weekly Stamp News (November 2, 1944). Ablard, Claude. “Les Prisonniers de Guerre en Allemagne: Les Camps de Transit,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 271 (4th Qtr 1992). —. “Prisonniers de Guerre Francais Transformes en Travailleurs Libres en 1943 et 1944,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 277 (2nd Qtr 1994). Annet, Micheld “Apropos des Prisonniers de Guerre Inte,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 280 (1st Qtr 1995). —. “Cachets de la Poste Militaire Allemande dans les Camps de Prisonniers de Guerre (1939– 1945),” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 247. Bachenheimer, Frank. “Ruhleben POW Camp 1914–1918,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 29, No. 5 (May 1978).

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Booker, Michael. “Prisoner of War Camps in Germany and GermanOccupied Territory, 1939– 45” [5part series], Forces Postal History, Vol. 10, Nos. 5–8, 10 (Jan-Nov 1969): 23 pp in all. Calkins, Forrest W. “German Prisoners of War, WWII,” War Cover Club, Vol. 20, No. 5 (AugSep 1980).

Chauvin, Francois. “Halte censure!” Timbres Magazine (September 2000): 100–101. Fox, Myron. “‘Uncommon’ Common Soldier,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 30, No. 9 (September 1979). —. “American Aid for German War Prisoners,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 59, No. 8 (August 2008): 323–328. Gruenzer, Norman. “German POW Camps in Texas,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 29. No. 6 (June 1978). Gundel, Alex. “Who Was the Recipient of This Postal Card?” La Posta, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Feb/Mar 2001): 47. Harwood, Jack. “Ruhleben POW Camp Postal Order,” Scott Stamp Monthly (October 16, 1998). Herst, Herman, Jr. “The Ruhleben Local Post,” Postal Stationery, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Mar/Apr 1965). Kinsley, Bob. “Handstamps of German POW Camp Censors

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in WWI,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2000): 20–23. —. “Numbered Handstamps of German POW Camp Censors, WWII,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2000): 24–25. LaBlonde, Charles. “Parcels for Belgian Prisoners,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Fall 2009): 1–6. Lewis, Ken. “Postal Mystery: Long Sentence” [Spanish Civil War], Stamp Magazine (UK), Vol. 74, No. 5 (May 2008): 67. Moxter, Hans G. “Irish POWs in Germany During World War I,” Revealer, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Spring 1994): 68–70. —. “Limburg POW Camp” [letter], Revealer, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Winter 1981): 48. O’Mathuna, Padraig. “German P.O.W. Mail Between Templemore and Germany, 1914 and 1915,” in 1922–1997, 75 Years of Irish Stamps, Contributions to Irish Philately and Postal History ([Germany]): Forschungs- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft Irland e.v. (FAI), 1997). Preisack, Eugene. “Provinz von Laibach,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 60, No. 4 (April 2009): 147–151. Richards, Thomas, and Regis Hoffman. “Dear Deanna” [US POWs in Germany], Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Sprign 2002): 12–13. Sawyer, J. Scott. “Illustrated KZ Mail, Part 1,” Israel Philatelist,Vol. 60, No. 4 (August 2009): 140–144. Stauffer, Kurt. “A Postal History of American POWs in Stalag Luft III, 1942–1945,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Fall 2006): 7–14. 148

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Vostatek, Dr. Miroslav [translated by Henry Hahn]. “Stalag VIII-C,” Czechoslovak Specialist, Vol. 69, No. 3 (May/Jun 2007). Werbizky, George G. “Red Army POW Mail,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 51, No. 2 (February 2000): 77–82.

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Sawyer, Dr. J. Scott, and Erik Lordahl. “Nachtraglich Entwertet: Prisoner Mail of KZ Gusen,” Israel Philatelist, Vol. 58, No. 2 (April 2007).

GERMANY, OCCUPATION OF CHANNEL ISLANDS

Brown, Ron. “Channel Islands, Civilian Prisoners 1940–1945,” Postal History (UK), Whole No. 329 (March 2009): 9–13. Gurney, David. “External Postal Communication During the German Military Occupation of Jersey 1940–45: Communicating with the Outside World,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Vol. 40, No. 6 (November 2009): 75–79. —. “External Postal Communications During the German Military Occupation of Guernsey 1940–45,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Vol. 40, No. 5 (October 2009): 80–81.

GERMANY, OCCUPATION OF THE NETHERLANDS

Bartlett, Alan. “Cover Story: The Bitter Irony of War,” Netherlands Philatelist (UK), Vol. 23, No. 2 (November 2000). Kaplan, Dr. E.C. “Dutch Control Seals” [WWI Belgian internees], War Cover Club, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Oct/Nov 1980). Koenig, K.E. “Netherlands Internment Stamps,” Netherlands & Colonies Philatelist, Whole Nos. 141–142 (Aug-Dec 1961).

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—. “Netherlands Internment Stamps,” Netherlands & Colonies Philatelist, Whole No. 143 (January 1962). —. “Netherlands Internment Stamps,” Netherlands Philately, Vol. 11, No. 2 (December 1986). —. “Netherlands Internment Stamps,” Netherlands Philately, American Society of Netherlands Philately, Vol. 11, Nos. 3–4 (MarJul 1987). Witmond, Carel. “Concentration Camps in the Netherlands During the 1940–1945 Occupation,” Netherlands Philately, Vol. 26, No. 2 (January 2002).

GREAT BRITAIN “Revised Listing of POW Camps in GB,” British Postmark Society Quarterly Bulletin (January 1999): 19–21. Barrie Jay. “British Forces Prisoner of War Mail 1793–1815,” Postal History (UK), Whole No. 301 (March 2002): 18–22. Brown, A. J. “British Prisoner-ofWar Camps, 1914–1918” [general censor marks], Forces Postal History, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Sep/Oct 1970): 41–42. —. “British Prisoner-of-War Camp Markings 1914–1918” [prison ships in British waters], Forces Postal History, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1970): 51–53. —. “British Prisoner-of-War Camp Markings, 1914–1918” [prison camps in the UK], Forces Postal History, Vol. 11, No. 8 (Mar/Apr 1971): 71–75. —. “Prisoner-of-War Camps in Great Britain in World War II,” Forces Postal History, Vol. 10, No. 1 (May/ Jun 1968): 9–10. —. “British Prisoner of War Camp Markings 1914–1918: Addenda,” Forces Postal History, Vol. 12, No. 10 (Mar/Apr 1973): 91–97.

—. “British Prisoner of War Camps, 1914–1918” [markings from individual camps], Forces Postal History, Vol. 11, No. 9 (May/Jun 1971): 81–86. —. “British Prisoner of War Camps, 1914–1918” [POW information bureau], Forces Postal History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1971): 1–3. —. “Prisoner of War Camp Markings, 1914–1918” [stationery], Forces Postal History, Vol. 12, No. 7 (Sep/ Oct 1972): 66–69. Champness, M.V.D. “Essex Prisoner of War Camp,” East Anglia Postal History Study Circle Bulletin, Whole No. 47 (December 1974): 8. Chauvin, Francois. “Halte Censure!” Timbres Magazine (September 2000): 100–101. Derrick Cunliffe. “Further Observations on WWI POW Mails,” Postal History (UK), Whole No. 287 (September 1998). Garcin, N. “Le Courrier des Prisoniers Francais en Angleterre sous le Directoire en le Premier Empire,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole Nos. 239–241 (1984–1985). —. “Le Courrier des Prisonniers Francais en Angleterre sous le Directoire et le Premier Empire,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole Nos. 239 (4th Qtr 1984) and 240 (1st Qtr 1985). Hill, J. “British POW Aerogrammes,” Postal Stationery, Vol. 25, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1983). Lynes, Martin. “British Prisoners of War in Turkey in WW I,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 186 (March 1995). Maddocks, R.J. “‘Just a Line From Prees Heath’: Mail From Encampments in Two World Wars,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Vol. 21, No. 12 (May 1991).

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Pirie, J.H. Harvey. “Anglo-Boer War Prisoner-of-War Camp Marks,” South African Philatelist, (Sep-Nov 1942). Stobb, S. “East Anglican Prison Ships, 1914–1915,” East Anglia Postal History Study Circle Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 27. Stobbs, S. “Prisoner of War and Internees’ Camps, Lancs and Yorks,” Postscript to the Postal Historian, Vol. 15, page 40.

HOLOCAUST, JEWISH Hatzis, Kostas. “Holocaust in its Thematically Horrific ‘Grandeur’!” Pharos tou filotelisti (Journal of the Philatelic Society of Patras), Vol. 2, No. 5 (Oct-Dec 2008): 136–141. Lawrence, Ken. “A Forged Letter from Hell” [Auschwitz], The American Philatelist, Vol. 106, No. 12 (December 1992): 1168. —. “Nazi Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and the Devastation of Europe,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 54, No. 7 (Aug/Sep 2003): 337–384.

INDIA Davis, Gerald. “Prisoner of War Camps in India etc 1914–19,” Postal History International, Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1973). Doyle, Kevin. “WWI Ahmednagar POW Cover,” East Africa Exchange, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1989). Morenweister, Konrad. “World War II Internment and POW Camps in India,” Civil Censorship Study Group Bulletin, Whole No. 93 (October 1991). Pohlig, Gustave A. “Internment Camps in India During WWII,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Spring 1995). Snowden, Neil. “P.O.W. Camps in India, 1914–18,” India Post (July 1969).

INDONESIA Radke, Raymond W. “American P.O.W.s in Java, March 1942,” Japanese Philately, Vol. 56, No. 2 (June 2001): 64–65.

HONG KONG

IRELAND

Silva, E.A. “Postal History of Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, P.O.W. Cards,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 66, No. 5 (February 1953): 337–343.

Cassidy, A. “World War I POW Item” [letter], Revealer, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Winter 1996): 49, 55. Dulin, Cyril I. “World War I POW Item” [letter], Revealer, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Winter 1996): 48–49. Moxter, Hans G. “German and Austrian Internees in Oldcastle 1914–1918,” Revealer, Vol. 48, No. (Winter 1998): 44–48. —. “Irish POWs in Germany during World War I,” Revealer, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Spring 1994): 68–70. —. “Limburg POW Camp” [letter], Revealer, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Winter 1981). —. “Military Internees in Eire 1940–1945,” Revealer, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Summer 2000): 13–14.

HUNGARY Gazda, Istvan. “Internment Camps in Hungary for Polish Military Personnel,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 103, No. 7 (July 1989): 644. —. “New Facts on Polish Military Internment Camps in Hungary,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 110, No. 3 (March 1996): 244–248. —. “A Follow-Up — Polish Military Internment Camps in Hungary,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 113, No. 9 (September 1999): 924–927. 150

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—. “World War I POW Covers,” Revealer, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Spring 1993): 72.

ISLE OF MAN “Isle of Man Detention Camps, WWI & II, Addnl.,” Postal History Society Bulletin, Whole No. 146, page 82.

ITALY Bialy, Jerzy J. “Postal Services in Polish Settlements in Italy,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society (Sep/Oct 1986). Collins , Norman J. “Chiasso-SofiaJerusalem Mail Route 1942–43,” BAPIP, Whole No. 120 (July 1989). —. “Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem Mail Route 1942–43,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 1990). —. “More Covers via Chiasso-SofiaJerusalem,” BAPIP, Whole No. 101 (Spring 1982). —. “Postscript — The American Connection,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 1990). —. “Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem P.O.W. Airmail Route, 1942–1943,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 177 (March 1992). —. “Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem P.O.W. Airmail Route, 1942–1943: An Update,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 181 (May 1993). —. “P.O.W. & Internees’ Mail by Air via Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem 1942–43,” BAPIP, Whole No. 100 (Autumn 1981). —. “Italo-Turkish War 1911–12: Prisoner of War Mail,” London Philatelist, Vol. 101, No. 12 (December 1992). Gerini, Francesco. “ChiassoJerusalem Route,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 1991).

—. “Prisoner of War Air Mail Routes,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1994): 124. Henning, Harry F. “Prisoners of War in East Africa” [letter], Fil-Italia, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 1993). Kaplan, Earl. “Italian POW Mail — The Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem Route,” Israel Philatelist (June 1982). Kralicek, Vladimir. “Prisoners of War in Italy During World War I” [part 1], Czechoslovak Specialist, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 2005). Kugel, Alfred. “West African Forces Again” [letter], Fil-Italia, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring 1993). Mavros, Dr. P. “POW Covers from the Italo-Turkish War 1911/12” [letter], London Philatelist, Vol. 102, Whole No. 1204 (May 1993). Migliavacca , Giorgio. “Italian POW Mail in Egypt — World War II,” War Cover Club, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Dec-Jan 1980-1981). —. Italian POWs — World War II,” War Cover Club, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Feb/Mar 1980). —. “Prisoners of War on Italian Territories During World War I,” Postal History Journal, Vol. 25, Whole No. 59 (October 1981). —. “Prisoners of War on Italian Territories During World War I,” Postal History Journal, Vol. 26, No. 60 (February 1982). Pilkington, Colin. “Have We Overlooked These Prisoners of War?” [Italo-Turkish War of 1912], Fil-Italia, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 1990). Rossignoli, Renzo. “Italian POW Postal Stationery Used in East Africa,” Notiziario A.S.I.F. (January 1971). Rossiter, Stuart. “Chiasso-SofiaJerusalem,” BAPIP, Whole No. 102 (Summer 1982).

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Santangelo, Piero [translated by Vladimir Kralicek]. “Prisoners of War in Italy During World War I” [part 1], Czechoslovak Specialist, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 2005): 28–36. —. “Prisoners of War in Italy During World War I” [part 2], Czechoslovak Specialist, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 2006): 19–28. Sassower, Gabriel. “The Italo-Turkish War 1911–12” [letter], London Philatelist, Vol. 102, Whole No. 1202 (March 1993). Thrower, Charles W. “Italian P.O.W.s in South Africa,” Postal Stationery, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Mar/Apr 1999): 60–62. Trovero, Battista G. “Lost Soldier Identified by Postal Stationery Card,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn 1990).

German Postal Specialist (December 1969). Stauffer, Kurt. “Mail to JapaneseHeld POWs Bearing U.S. Stamps with ‘Patriotic Themes’,” Prexie Era Newsletter, Whole No. 42 (Summer 2008): 7–9. Troverom Battista. “Japan 1945: The Italian Connection,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 21, No. 4 (3rd Qtr 1995). Wallace, R.E. “Incoming: An Interesting POW Cover,” Military

JAMAICA Seifert, Col. Fred F. “Free Letter Prisoners of War,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 5 (September 1967): 102.

JAPAN Clowes, Norman. “Letter to Editor” [German Prisoner-of-War Mail — Camps in Japan, 1914/ 20], London Philatelist, Vol. 100, Whole No. 1188 (December 1991). Genzler, William. “1915 Cover Throws Light on Austrian POWs in Japan,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 110, No. 11 (November 1996): 1034–1035. Kerschbaum, Michael. “World War I German Prisoner of War Mail from Japan to the Falkland Islands,” Vorlauffer, Whole No. 150 (March 2008): 21–25; Reprinted from Japanese Philately (December 2006). Mattler, John. “German P.O.W. Private Issue Christmas Cards,”

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Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2000): 19.

KOREA, NORTH “POW Correspondence Recalls Korean War,” Linn’s Stamp News (February 8, 1988): 8.

Winters, Frank A. “German P.O.W. Mail in Japan, 1914–1920,” Japanese Philately, Vol. 43, No. 6 (December 1988).

Cartafalsa, Joe. “Prisoners of War: Korea 1950–53,” Global Stamp News (September 2007): 22–24.

JEWISH INTERNEES / REFUGEES Pohlig, Gustav A. “Internment Camps for Jews in Non-Axis Countries,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 116, No. 9 (September 2002): 820–826; see also Letters to the Editor from Stephen J. Tauber and Ernest L. Bergman, Vol. 116, No. 12 (December 2002): 1070–1071. —. “My Dearest, I Have Not Heard from You,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 107, No. 8 (August 1993): 764–767 Aug, v107 #8 (v107 #10 p. 916 Update) —. “‘My Dearest’ Update,” The American Phialtelist, Vol. 107, No. 10 (October 1993): 916.

Collins, Robert W. “U.S. Prisoner of War Mail from the Korean War,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 114, No. 6 (June 2000): 550–554.

KOREA, SOUTH Collins, Robert W. “Guarding the Koje-do POW Prison Camp,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer 2000): 22.

LATVIA Danielski, J.J. “WW II Internment of Polish Servicemen in Latvia,” American Philatelic Congress, No. 73 (2007): 26–46.

LITHUANIA

Schwab, Henry. “World War II Aid and Rescue,” Israel Philatelist, Vol. 56, No. 6 (December 2005).

Ryndak, Slawomier. “Polish Prisoners of War in Lithuania, September 1939,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society, Whole No. 527 (Summer 2007); Originally published in Filatelista, (September 2005).

KENYA Abelard, Claude. “Prisonniers de Guerre Francais au Kenya,” Les Feuilles Marcophiles, Whole No. 307 (4th Qtr 2001): 28.

MALAYSIA

Barot, Georges. “POW Camp in Kenya,” Journal of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK), Vol. 51, No. 2 (June 2001): 80. Spong, Colin. “POW Camp in Kenya” [letter], Journal of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK), Vol. 51, No. 3 (September 2001): 116–118. —. “French POW Camps in Kenya” [World War II], Journal of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK), Vol. 56, No. 2 (June 2006): 39–43.

Graham, Richard B. “Rossiter Trust: British POW Book, Annual Journal,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 75, Whole No. 3830 (March 25, 2002): 24–25. McEwen, Susan. “Majeedi Camp, Johore Bahru, Malaya,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Vol. 39, No. 1 (June 2008): 63–67.

MEXICO Nissen, Edward M. “Perote Internee,” Mexicana, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 1993).

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MOROCCO Deakin, Bob. “World War I POW Camps in Morocco,” Journal of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK), Vol. 50, No. 3 (September 2000): 103–107.

NEW ZEALAND Branam, George. “New Zealand’s ‘Exempt’ Handstamp in World War II 69–72,” Informer, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Summer 2000).

NORWAY Lordahl, Erik. “General Otto Ruge and Norwegian Officers in German Captivity 1940–1945,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 2001): 63–67.

PALESTINE Carneval-Mauzan, M. [translated by Colin Pilkington]. “Vatican Messages during World War II,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1981). Collins, Norman J. “Chiasso-SofiaJerusalem P.O.W. Airmail Route 1942–1943,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 1991/1992). Healy, Barth. “Prisoner of War & Internee Mail in World War II, Italian Regulations” [translated], Fil-Italia (Spring 1985). Kaplan, Earl. “Italian POW Mail — The Chiasso-Sofia-Jerusalem Route,” Israel Philatelist (June 1982).

PANAMA Pohlig, G.A. “Internment Camp TABOGA in Panama, World War I,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Apr-Jun 1992).

PHILIPPINES Helbock, Richard W. “Mail to & from American Civilians Interned by the Japanese in the Philippines, 1941–1945,” La Posta, Vol. 39, No. 3 (July 2008): 54–67. 154

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Herold, C.W. “A Trio of Philatelic Favorites: Source of Cards?” The American Philatelist, Vol. 108, No. 9 (September 1994): 864; see also “Letter to the Editor” by Eugene A. Garrett, Vol. 108, No. 11 (November 1994): 971.

POLAND “Post of German POWs in Poland 1945–1950,” Philatelie (December 1999). Berestynaski, Adam. “Mail System in K.L. Auschwitz,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 1996): 428–432. Bura, Fabian. “1944 Unofficial Olympic Games Stamps of POWs at Woldenberg and Gross- Born,” POLPEX (Chicago) (March 5–7, 1965): 21–27. Collins, Peter. “Prisoner of War Stamps of World War II” [Private posts], The Philatelist, Vol. 38, No. 1 (October 1971). Hennenberg, Jacob. “Auschwitz: The Postal History of Oswiecim,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1 (September 1976): 11–16. Pulaski, Clement A. “Poland Prison Camp Post Offices,” Stamps (US) (February 9, 1946). Schmutz, Leslaw, and Jerry Walocha. “Cancellers Used During the Easter Mailing at Camp IIC Woldenberg in 1942,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society, Whole No. 533, (Winter 2008): 12–13. Sobus, Roman. “POW Study Group: Woldenberg Virtuti Militari Series,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society, Whole No. 530 (Spring 2008): 7–8. Zebrowski, Henry F. “Polish POW, DP and Concentration Camps During World War II: A Philatelic Bibliography,” Philatelic Literature Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1st Qtr 1980): 7–15.

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ROMANIA

Cross, John K., and Robert Huggins. “Portugal in World War I: Internee and Prisoner of War Mail,” PortuInfo, Vol. 35, Whole No. 138 (OctDec 2000): 154–167. Frazao, Dr. Luis. “Portugal During World War I,” Portuguese Philatelic Society Bulletin, Whole No. 116 (December 1991): 2–7. Hohensang, Lutz. “Internees & POWs” [World War I], Portuguese Philatelic Society Bulletin, Whole No. 99 (May 1987). Sanches, A. Bordalo. “Portugal na Primeira Guerra Mundial: Prisioneiros de Guerra,” A Filatelia Portuguesa, No. 11 (October 1986): 4–5. —. “Portugal na Primeira Guerra Mundial: Prisoneiros de Guerra,” A Filatelia Portuguesa, No. 12 (December 1986).

Gobby, Thomas J. “Romanian Internment Camps 1939–1942,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society (Nov/Dec 1986). Leibowitz, Peter. “Postal Arrangements in Romania for WWII US POWs,” Romanian Philatelic Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1983).

PORTUGUESE INDIA Herzberg, George H. “Allied and Neutral Prison Camps,” Stamps (US) (September 27, 1941). Hohensang, Lutz. “Internees & POWs” [World War II], Portuguese Philatelic Society Bulletin, Whole No. 99 (May 1987). RED CROSS, INTERNATIONAL “Prisoner of War Camps, 1-5-1916 in France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia and Japan,” Postal History International, Vol. 4, Nos. 5/6 (May/Jun1975). Callens, Roger. “International Red Cross Tracing Service,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin (Spring 2009): 1, 4–6. Glass, Robert L. “A Concentration Camp Cover,” COMPEX (May 26–28, 1995). VonGross, Gustave A. “International Red Cross and Prisoner of War Covers,” Stamps (US) (August 7, 1943).

RUSSIA / USSR Boyko, Vladimir. “Letters from Behind the Barbed Wire. The Postal History of the Gulag,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 108, No. 1 (January 1994): 36–47. Boyko, Vladimir, with P. and V. Florenskyi. “Mail from the Solovetskyi Camps; The Road to Calvary,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 117, No. 1 (January 2003): 22–33. Cronin, Andrew. “Japanese POWs in the USSR,” Post Rider, Whole No. 50 (June 2002). —. “Mail of the Hungarian POWs in the USSR,” Post-Rider, Whole No. 39 (November 1996). Danielski, J.J., and M. Lubinski. “Polish Officers in Soviet Captivity 1939–41,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 1996): 48–60. Engel, Arnold. “Prisoners of the Russians,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 1984). Nelson, Larry. “German POW in the Post-WWII Soviet Camp System,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Winter 2002): 9–11. Pritt, A. “Prisoner of War Cards of 1914–18 War,” British Journal of Russian Philately, Whole No. 39 (October 1966). Schroter, Martin. “Red-Cross Cards of German POWs in the USSR

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1945– 56” [3 parts], Postal History Journal, Whole Nos. 72–74 (Feb, Jun, Oct 1986).

ST. HELENA Bilhaut, M. “Une Lettre d’un Prisonnier de Guerre Francaise a Sainte-Helene,” Documents Philateliques, Whole No. 165 (3rd Qtr 2000): 26–29.

SCOTLAND Jeffries, David. “Prisoner of War Camps in Scotland,” Scottish Post, Whole No. 56 (1992). —. “POW Camps in Scotland,” Scottish Post, Whole No. 70 (AprJun 1996): 726–727S.

SOUTH AFRICA “Anglo-Boer War P.O.W. Censor Marks,” South African Philatelist (February 1943). “Boer Prisoners on Board Ship, H.M.S. ‘Penelope’,” Anglo-Boer War Philatelist, 8 (1965). “Camps in India Censor and Other Markings,” Anglo-Boer War Philatelist, 7 (1964). “Italian POWs in South Africa,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2001/2002): 32. Callens, Roger. “Nearly Forgotten German Internees in South Africa” [World War II], Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring 2006): 9–10. Hibbert, E. “St. Helena Camps,” Anglo-Boer War Philatelist, Vol. 17, No. 3 (September 1974): 75–81. Maddocks, R.G. “Italian Prisoners of War in West Africa,” Cameo, Vol. 5, No. 3 (January 1996). Pirie, J.H.H. “British Army T.P.O.s,” Anglo-Boer War Philatelist, Vol. 8, No. 1 (May 1965): 3–6. Speirs, George M. “‘And Don’t Forget to Write’: The Story of a South African POW,” The American 156

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Philatelist, Vol. 98, No. 1 (January 1984): 56–58. Thrower, Charles W. “Italian P.O.W.s in South Africa,” Postal Stationery, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Mar/Apr 1999): 60–62.

SPAIN Lewis, Ken. “Forgotten,” Stamp News (Australasia), Vol. 54, No. 4 (April 2007). Wells, Jerry A. “Spanish Civil War: Republican and National Prison Camps and Workers’ Battalions,” Arana, Journal of the Spanish Philatelic Society (Summer 2005): 13–14. —. “French Refugee Camps and the Spanish Civil War,” Arana, Journal of the Spanish Philatelic Society (Fall 2005): 16–19.

SWITZERLAND Piotr, Pelczar. “Illustrated Holiday Formula Cards for Polish Soldiers Interned in Switzerland,” Bulletin of the Polonus Philatelic Society (Winter 2009): 10–15. von Gross, Gustave A. “Interned Soldier Mail of Switzerland,” S.P.A Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (November 1941): 63–66.

TOPICAL COLLECTING — CHRISTMAS

Pohlig, Gustav. “Happy Holidays — Christmas Messages from Behind Barbed Wires,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 104, No. 12 (December 1990): 1086–1087; see also “Correction,” Vol. 105, No. 2 (February 1991): 110.

TRINIDAD Bayley, Colin H. “WWI Transfer of POWs,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 1977): 102. Fritzsche, Wolfgang. “POW Mail in Trinidad,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 32, No. 9 (September 1981).

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Seifert, Col. Fred F. “Trinidad P.O.W. Cover,” British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 6 (November 1967): 116.

TURKEY “Dardannelles Campaign 1915,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 187 (May 1995). Collins , Norman J. “Italo-Turkish War 1911–12: Prisoner of War

Mail,” London Philatelist, Vol. 101, Whole No. 1200 (December 1992). Kinsley, Robert T. “Operation Catapult” [French Prisoners], The American Philatelist, Vol. 114, No. 6 (June 2000): 556–557. Lynes, Martin. “British Prisoners of War in Turkey in World War I,” OPAL, The Journal of the Oriental Philatelic Association of London, Whole No. 186 (March 1995).

UNITED STATES “Camp Douglas and Its Prisoner of War Letters,” COMPEX (November 12–14, 1965): 49–63. “Camp Sutton; A German Prisonerof-War Camp, 1944–46,” North Carolina Postal Historian, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 1999). “[History of Camp Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana, Civil War],” Indiana Postal History Society Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan/Mar 1989). Avery, Don. “Philatelic Favorite: A Prisoner’s Valentine,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 117, No. 2 (February 2003): 192. Bechtel, Robert B. “The Postal History of Arizona’s JapaneseAmerican Relocation Camps,”

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Heliograph, Vol. 7. No. 1 (Winter 1993). Brandner, Herb. “Prisoner of War Letter Cards” [sample letter card is attached to the page], Jack Knight Air Log, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr-June 1945). Cabeen, Richard McP. “US Camp Douglas & Its Prisoner of War Letters,” Congress Book #17 (1951): 76–99. Carter, Russ. “US POW Walnut Mail,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 17. Dietz, August A. “Northern Prisonerof-War Covers,” Stamp and Cover Collectors Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (October 1938). Fiset, Louis. “[Dr. K. Koike Correspondence from Issei],” La Posta, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Aug/Sep 1990). —. “Reader Responds: APO Box 20 Undercover Address Cover,” Prexie Era, Whole No. 22 (Spring 2002): 5–6. Funihiko, Yano. “U.S. Card for Japanese Prisoners,” Japanese Philately, Vol. 37, No. 2 (April 1982). Graham, Richard B. “Civil War: Across-the-Line and POW Covers,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 69, Whole No. 3544 (October 7, 1996): 58–59. —. “Civil War: Prisoner Covers, Camp Douglas,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 68, Whole No. 3462 (March 13, 1995): 34–35. —. “WWII: Prisoner-of-War Mail, Internee Mail,” Linn’s Stamp News, Vol. 66, Who.le No. 3389 (October 18, 1993). Green, Brian M. “A Fort Warren Prison Cover,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 36, No. 6 (February 1974): 361–363. 158

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—. “Fort Warren Revisited,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 38, No. 9 (May 1976): 561–577. —. “Letterman General Hospital Prisoner of War Cover,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 36, No. 7 (March 1974): 427–428. —. “Prisoner of War Covers from Jefferson Davis,” S.P.A. Journal, Vol. 39, No. 7 (March 1977): 439–442. Gruenzer, Norman. “German POW Camps in Texas,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 29, No. 6 (June 1978). —. “Postal History of American Prisoners of War,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 93, No. 5 (May 1979): 413–415. Helbock, Richard W. “Mail from the Camps: A Postal History of America’s WW II Relocation Centers & Associated Internment Camps,” La Posta (Feb/Mar 2003): 9–18. Hollowbush, Frank A. “Original Find in Prisoner-of-War Covers,” Stamps (US) (September 23, 1944). Kugel, Alfred F. “American Prisoners of War During World War I,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Fall 2006): 1, 4–6. Loebl, Walter. “Philatelic Cancellations that Recall Romance and Heroes,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 97, No. 11 (November 1983): 1000–1004. Lyding, John. “US: The First Prisoner of War,” Baltimore Philatelist, Vol. 53, No. 1 (1st Qtr 2008): 17–19. MacBride, Van Dyk. “Prisoner-of-War Covers of Morris Island and Fort Pulaski,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 59, No. 8 (May 1946): 678– 689. Mazza, Thomas C. “Prisoner-of-War Mail,” Collectors Club Philatelist,

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Vol. 78, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 1999): 48–49. Miskevich, John. “Civilian Detention Camp at Fort Lincoln,” German Postal Specialist, Vol. 45, No. 5 (May 1994): 191–204. Newman, Lowell E. “The Civil War’s First P.O.W.s,” U.S. Stamps & Postal History, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1992). Paton, Ian M. “1861–1865 Civil War — A POW Camp and Its Commander,” London Philatelist, Vol. 104, Whole No. 1227 (Jul/Aug 1995): 205– 206. Rorke, Joseph F. “Review: The James M. Morey POW Covers,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 95, No. 8 (August 1981): 695–704. Roth, Steven M. “Another Secret Address? [Box 20] Why?” Prexie Era, Whole No. 21 (Winter 2002): 10. Segal, Harry. “Story of a German Prisoner of War,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 94, No. 7 (July 1980): 622–623. Sheaff, Richard. “US Detention of ‘Enemy Aliens’,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 122, No. 12 (December 2008): 1138–1139. Shenfield, Lawrence L. “Prisoner-ofwar and Flag-of-Truce Covers,” Stamp Specialist (1942), (Yellow). Stiel, A. “WWII, POW Camp Trinidad, Colorado,” Archiv fur Deutsche Postgeschichte (1975), page 161. Wishnietsky, Bernard. “Johnson Island POW Cover,” Confederate Philatelist (1975), page 21.

VATICAN CITY Fiset, Louis. “Wartime Communication — Red Cross Key to U.S.–Japan Mails,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 104, No. 3 (March 1990): 228–234.

Gazda, Istvan. “Some Special War Routings,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 99, No. 5 (May 1985): 441–445. Hogancamp, Rebecca. “What Price the World? World War I Adventures of Austro-Hungarian Traced Through Cards, Letters,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 103, No. 7 (July 1989): 629–636. Pirozzi, Greg. “Holy See and Communications During WW II,” Fil-Italia, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn 1998). —. “The Holy See and WWII Communications,” Postal History Journal, Vol. 143, Whole No. 143 (June 2009): 4–22.

WORLDWIDE Helbock, Richard W. “World War II Mail to & from the Camps, Part 3” [Japanese, Germans, Italians], La Posta, (Aug/Sep 2003): 9–28. Herzberg, George H. “Allied and Neutral Prison Camps,” Stamps (US) (September 27, 1941). Kaczynski, William. “‘Enemy Aliens’: Internment Mail of World War II” [Part 1], BAPIP Bulletin, Whole No. 132 (March 14, 1992); first published in Israel Philatelist (June 1991). —. “‘Enemy Aliens’: Internment Mail of World War II” [Part 2], BAPIP Bulletin, Whole No. 133 (August 14, 1992); first published in Israel Philatelist (August 1991). Pohlig, Gustav. “Women Behind Barbed Wire,” The American Philatelist, Vol. 105, No. 12 (December 1991): 1098–1103. Stauffer, Kurt. “Capture Mail of American POWs in Europe During WWII,” Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Summer 2001): 4–14.

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What’s on Your Bookshelf?

Encyclopedia of Designs, Designers, Engravers, Artists of United States Postage Stamps 1847–1900 by Roger Brody One of the more valuable reference books in my library is a rather slim, staple-bound text of 80 pages titled Encyclopedia of Designs, Designers, Engravers, Artists of United States Postage Stamps 1847–1900. It is actually a 1962 reprint of a series of thirteen articles originally published by Les Schriber Sr. in The American Philatelist from August 1961 (Vol. 74, No. 11) through August 1962 (Vol 75, No. 11), edited by James M. Chemi, AP editor, and printed by J.W. Stowell. In the book’s Foreword, Schriber quotes British biographical historian James Granger: In every age and nation distinguished for arts and learning, the inclination of transmitting the memory and even the features of illustrious persons to posterity, has uniformly prevailed. The greatest poets, orators, and historians were contemporaries with the most celebrated painters, statuaries, and engravers of gems [and] medals, and the desire to be acquainted with a man’s aspect, has ever risen in proportion to the known excellence of character, and the admiration of his writings. The author then goes on to assert: It is with the above thought in mind that I undertake to place before the members of The American Philatelic Society, through a series of articles, all of the data I have collected, over a period of thirty years, pertaining to the “Illustrious Persons” who worked behind the scenes, carefully What’s your favorite philatelic pub­ and diligently, producing lication? It needn’t be rare. Please the exquisitely engraved share it with PLR readers by contactUnited States postage ing Barbara Boal at 100 Match Factory stamps you collect today. Place, Bellefonte, PA 16823, e-mail [email protected], or telephone 814In the next 77 pages, 933-3803, ext. 221. Schriber succeeds brilliantly 160

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in providing an expanse of information about the subject described in the book’s title. The work is divided into three parts. The first part is a chronological description of the United States postage stamp issues from 1847 through 1900. Each stamp issue contains important background information concerning the stamp issuance. Schriber then discusses the stamp design sources in great detail, along with the name(s) of the stamp designer and engraver(s) delineated by portrait, frame and lettering. The second part of the book contains a wealth of biographical information about all of the artists, sculptors, designers, engravers, printers, as well as vignette subjects of America’s stamps of the nineteenth century. Although the depth of information on each individual varies, Schriber succeeds in illuminating the background of more than 140 individuals who influenced or produced our early stamps. The final section comprises Special Notes and an addenda to the series. Within the text of the first section are numerical “endnotes” or references relating to the Special Notes section. Unlike typical text sourcing, Schriber’s Special Notes are really special. While the infor-

mation in the notes could just as easily have been incorporated into the text, Schriber has maintained the uniformity of the format created to describe each stamp series. The Special Notes add significant depth and color to the story. Although the book is out of print, copies are frequently offered on eBay for less than the cost of a movie. There are several books that offer an expanse of information specific to the art of engraving, but Schriber’s work is an important reference worthy of a place on every stamp collector’s bookshelf.

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APRL New Acquisitions

The Catalogue Continues to Grow The following works — listed alphabetically by subject, country, or general specialty, and within that category by author — have been processed as new acquisitions by the American Philatelic Research Library between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. We are pleased to report that much of the regular book collection has been moved. Now a visitor to the APRL can browse the shelves and find a great deal of information on a specific topic or country in one place. As a result, you will now see a Call Number after the subject heading for the new materials. Other terms that may appear in the call number section are: Closed Stacks = a separate area for materials that are scarce (but not rare) or fragile. These materials are not always available for use by mail, but may be used in the APRL. Vert File = a special filing cabinet where small items that would be lost on the shelf are housed together. Gov Doc = Government Documents Reference = Reference

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Vandervelde, V. Denis. The Bombardment of Acre, 1840 ([n.p.]: Holyland Philatelic Society, c2010): 20 leaves, col. ill., 30 cm.

ADEN Hart, Jerone R. The Indian Postal Administration of Aden, 1839– 1937 [exhibit] ([.n.p.]: [Jerone R. Hart], [2007?]): [144, 4], 4 leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. [Call No. EXHIBITS]

AFRICA Michel. Michel UberseeKatalog. Band 4, Nord- und Ostafrika (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2009): 1563 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES] 162

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Vaccari, Silvia. 211 Days in Space (Vignola (Mo), Italy: Vaccari, c2009): 54 p., col. ill., 30 cm.

ALBUMS American Philatelic Society. 2008–2009 U.S. Stamp Albums (Bellefonte, PA: American Philatelic Society, c2007-): col. ill., 28 cm. + 1 computer optical disk (4¾ in.).

ARGENTINA Jalil, Guillermo Alejandro, and Jose Luis Gottig. Catalogo especializado de sellos postales de la Republica Argentina (Buenos Aires/Santa Fe, Argentina: The Authors, c2009): 501 p., col. ill., 31 cm.

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Bardi, Dario Antonio. Proceres y riquezas I: Catalogo especializado de sellos postales (Argentina: CeFiNi, 2009): 77 p., ill., 22 cm.

AUSTRALIA Australia Post Philatelic Group. The Collection of [year] Australian Stamps ([Melbourne?]: Australia Post Philatelic Group (Produced by Sprintpak Pty Ltd.), c1992– 2007): col. ill., 31 cm. [Call No. ALBUMS] Cress, John F. A Postal History of Tasmania 1822–1901 [exhibit] ([Asheville NC: J.F. Cress], [ca. 2000 or 2001]): 1 v. (unpaged), ill. (1 col.), map, 32 cm. [Call No. EXHIBITS] Eastick, Michael. Comprehensive Colour Catalogue of Australian Stamps. Volume 2 (Huntingdale, Victoria [Australia]: Victoria Stamp Traders, c2007): p. 147– 352, ill. (chiefly col.), 30 cm. [Call No. G8960 .A1 C737 2007 vol.2] Forbes, Sandy. Commonwealth of Australia, George V 1½d Die II ([n.p.]: British Society of Australian Philately, 2006): 200 p., ill., 30 cm. [Call No. G8961 .D313 F695] Gass, Harald. Osterreich im Dienste des Friedens: 30 Jahre Beteiligung an UN — Friedensmissionen (Wien: BMLV, [1990]): 183 p. Michel. Michel Ubersee-Katalog. Band 7, Australien, Ozeanien, Antarktis (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2010): 1,788 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

AUSTRIA Ferroni, Massimiliano, and Mario Serone. 10 centes; prima emissione del Lombardo Veneto [Italian and English] (Verona, Italy: Grafiche

FDG Editore, 2009): 147 p., col. ill., 24 cm. Offizielle aerogramme. Aerogramme Osterreich (Wien [Austria]: Osterr. Flugpostsammlerverein, [1988?]): 41 p. Pelikan, Johann, and Reinhard K. Schneider. Festschrift, 75 Jahre Freistempel in Osterreich; Eine Systematik der Osterreichischen Freistempel, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Post- oder Schalterfreistempel, von ihren Anfangen bis nach dem 2. (Wien [Austria]: Verlag Pollischansky, 1997): x, 46, 7 p. Rainer, Norbert. K.u.k. Feld- und Zensurpost ein Sammelgebiet stellt sich vor (Graz: ARGE Feld- und Zensurpost 1914/18, 1997): 74 p.

AUSTRO-HUNGARY Austria Postkursbureau. PostKurs-Bureau: Verzeichnis der Post- und Telegraphen-amter in Osterreich, Ungarn und in Bosnien-Hercegovina [computer file] (Wien: Postkursbureau des K.K. Handelsministeriums, 1910): 1 computer optical disk, 4¾ in.

BARBADOS Bayley, Edmund A. The History of the Post Offices in Barbados (Barbados: Edmund A. Bayley, 2009): xiii, 395 p., ill., map, port., 30 cm. [Call No. G5141 .P856 B358h 2009] Hart, Jerone R. Barbados, the Cancels and Postal Uses of the 1938 Small Format Seal of the Colony Definitives [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): ca. 150 leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. —. The 1947 “One Penny” Provisional Overprint of Barbados; Postal Necessity or Philatelic

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Ruse? [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): [23] p., col. ill., 28 cm.

BOLIVIA Schnell, Roger G. Land of the Llama, Vicuna and Condor [exhibit] ([Fort Lauderdale, FL]: R. Schnell, [2010]): [57] leaves, col. ill., 29 cm.

(some col.), 28 cm. [Call No. G3401 .P856 L651 2005] Canada Post. From Wampum to Postal Code: The Story of the Canada Post = Du wampum au code postal: L’histoire des Postes canadiennes ([Ottawa]: Canada Post, Public Affairs, [1974]): iii,

BRITISH BECHUANALAND Wessely, David. The Bechuanalands, 1884–1912 [exhibit] ([n.p.]: [David Wessely], [2009]): [96, 52] leaves, col. ill., 29 cm.

BRITISH COLONIES Little, D.J. British Empire Civil Censorship Devices, World War II. Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Islands ([n.p.]: Civil Censorship Study Group, c2008): 180 p., col. ill., maps, 30 cm. [Call No. G5731 .C396 C582be 2008] Morley, Walter. Walter Morley’s Catalogue and Price List of the Revenue Stamps of the British Colonies Including Railway Stamps (London: Walter Morley, 1910): 130 leaves, ill., 28 cm.

CANADA Arfken, George B. Early Canada Post Cards 1871– 1911 (Surrey, Canada: British North America Philatelic Society, 2004): vi, 134 p., col. ill., 28 cm. BNAPS. Letters from the Far West (Calgary, Alberta, Canada: BNAPS Calgary Group, c2005): 264 p., ill.

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20, 24, iii p., col. ill., 22 cm. [Call No. G3401 .P859 F 1974] Ellison, Ken. British Columbia Hotel Covers 1880 to 1920 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada: British North America Philatelic Society, c2004): 131 p., col. ill., 28 cm. [Call No. G3401 .C873 E47b 2004] Narbonne, R.F. Postal Service in the Bathurst District of Upper Canada (Upper Ottawa Valley) [exhibit] ([n.p.]: British North America Philatelic Society, 2009): 123 p., col. ill., port., 28 cm. [Call No. EXHIBITS] Sargent, Ken, and Leopold Beaudet. The Goebel Press Era of Canadian Stamps (Seddons Corner, MB, Canada: Elizabeth II Study Group, 2010): 14 p., col. ill., 28 cm. [Filed with CORGI TIMES] Smith, Michael J. The McCoy Printing Company Picture Postcard Handbook 1900–1910 ([Canada]: M.J. Smith, 2009): 222 p., ill., 23 cm. [Call No. G3401 .P839 S655]

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS Michel. Michel UberseeKatalog. Band 2, Karibische Inseln (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2008/2009): 1947 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

CATALOGS Weston. The American Standard Catalogue of All Postage Stamps (Toronto, Canada: Weston Stamp Co., 1896): 248 p., ill., 20 cm. [Call No. PRICE LISTS — WESTON]

CENTRAL AMERICA Michel. Michel Ubersee-Katalog. Band 1, Teil 2, Mittelamerika (Unterschleissheim:

Schwaneberger Verlag, 2008/2009): 891 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

CHANNEL ISLANDS Newport, William. Early Channel Islands Postal History and Notes on Other Material (Sidcup, Kent: Channel Islands Specialists’ Society, [1958]): 39 p., ill.

CHILE Sociedad Filatelica de Chile. Study of the Airmail Stamps of Chile (Santiago, Chile: Edition of the Sociedad Filatelica de Chile, 1944; 2004 translation): Julio C. Cava Silva, “The Provisional Issue of the Airmail Stamps of 1928–1936,” 39 p.; James C. Johnson Jr., “Study Collection of the Airmail Stamps of Chile,” 36 leaves; col. ill., 28 cm.

CHINA China. Ministry of Communications. Directorate General of Posts. Report on the Working of the Chinese Post Office for the Fifth Year of ChungHua Min-Kuo (1916) [Chinese and English] (Taipei, Taiwan: Reprinted by the China Stamp Society with permission of the Director General of Posts, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1996): 43, 43 p., tables, 28 cm. [Call No. GOV DOC] Lawrence, Hugh. The Late Civil War Forerunners and Provisional Issues of East China [exhibit] ([Encinitas, CA]: Hugh Lawrence, c2008): ca. 90 leaves, col. ill., 29 cm. Michel. Michel UberseeKatalog. Band 9, Teil 1, ChinaKatalog (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2008– 2010): 637 p. (2008) + 686 p.

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(2009/2010), ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

COLLECTED WORKS Nowlan, Michael O. [“Philatelic Bookshelf”] Columns from Canadian Stamp News ([St. Catherines, ON, Canada: Canadian Stamp News], [2004]): 1 v., 43 cm. (folded: 23 x 28 cm.)

COLLECTING Bird, Gayland. TASCO Handbook; Bird’s Handbook of Tatham Stamp and Coin Companies Products (Asheville, NC: G. Bird, c2010): 49 p., col. ill., 28 cm.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Hart, Jerone R. The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865 [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): ca. 150 leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. —. The 1863 Archer & Daly Printed 10-cent Die I and Die II Stamps of the Confederate States of America [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): [25] leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. Monroe, James L.D. A Lifetime of Collecting Confederate States of America Postal History (Marceline, MO : Walsworth Publishing Co. (Confederate Stamp Alliance), [2010] c2009): iv, 156 p., col. ill., port., 29 cm.

COSTA RICA Duenas, F. Tomas. Las monedas tipo de Costa Rica (San Jose, Costa Rica: Museo Banco Central de Costa Rica, 1994): xvi, 69 p.

CYPRUS Davis, Robin. Cyprus; The Large Half Overprints of 1886 ([n.p.]: Cyprus Study Circle, c1996): 14 leaves, ill., 30 cm. 166

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Lazarides, Stauros G. Kypriako panorama, 1899–1930 = Panorama of Cyprus, 1899–1930 (Athena [Greece]: Ekdose tou periodiku “Sylloges,” 1987): 288 p., ill., ports., 24 cm.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA Evinic, Dusan. Balikova posta na slovensku 1918–1985 (Bratislava: Zvaz slovenskych filatelistov, Bratislava, 1985): 156 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. G6513 .S6 E93b] Obert, Jozef. Zmeny hranic Slovenska a Podkarpatskej Rusi 1918–1947. Postovy odraz (Bratislava: Zvaz slovenskych filatelistov, Bratislava, 1989): 163, [1] p., ill., maps, 21 cm. [Call No. G6513 .S6 O12z]

DEALERS Gibbons, Stanley. The Directory: International Stamp Traders’ Directory and Handbook (London and Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., 2010): xiv, 104 p., 24 cm.

DENMARK Begtrup, Arne. KE Stjernestempel Katalog 1973/74 (Kobenhavn: Udgivet af Kirsten Ehlers, 1973): 64 p. Denmark. Generaldirektoratet for post- og telegrafvaesenet. Fortegnelse over posthuse i Danmark, Mai 1962 (Kobenhavn: trykt i Centraltrykkeriet, 1962): 59 p. Post Denmark. I Overste hojre hjorne: danske frimaerker i 150 ar = In the Upper Right-hand Corner: 150 Years of Danish Stamps (Copenhagen: Post Denmark, 2001): 155 p., col. ill.

DESIGNS United States Postal Service. National Postal Museum. Design

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It! Student Stamps for America (Washington, DC: United States Postal Service: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, [2006?]): ii, 28, A1, B1–B9, C1– C8, D1 p., col. ill., ports., 28 cm.

EGYPT Feltus, Peter R. Egypt Collectors’ Directory ([n.p.]: [n.p.], 1974): 29 p., ill., 29 cm. [Call No. DIRECTORIES] Fikry, Samir Amin. Egypt: Postal Services in the Suez Canal Zone 1838–1880 (Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman, c2009): iv, 81 p., col. ill., map, port., 31 cm. + 1 CD-ROM in pocket.

ESTONIA Laas, Karl-Valdo. Bibliography and Index of Estonian Philatelic Literature [draft] (Toronto, Canada: Karl-Valdo Laas, 1996): A1–A6, T1–T5, L1–56, 8 p., 28 cm. Vanemuise Seltsi Kirjastus. Eesti Posti lisafrankotemplid 1991–1992 ([Tartu, Estonia]: Vanemuise Seltsi Kirjastus, 1995): 87 p., ill., 29 cm.

FALKLAND ISLANDS Gibbons, Stanley. Stanley Gibbons Falkland Islands and British South Atlantic Islands Stamp Catalogue (London: Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd., 1985): x, 105 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES Gibbons] Perkins, Clive M. PSNC Steamers 1840–1940 with Historical Notes (Sutton, Surrey [England]: Cosmic Office Supplies, Ltd. (Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group), 2010): 32 p., ill., 26 cm. [Call No. G9176 .S557 P448p] 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 167

FINLAND Postimerkkiliike Lauri Peltonen Ky. Rengasmerkit jaehiot 100 vuotta 1.5.1991 = The Ring Stamp and Postal Stationery Centennial May 1, 1991 (Hanko, Finland: Postimerkkiliike Lauri Peltonen Ky; Suomen Ehiofilatelistit Ry Finlands Helsaksfilatelister RF, 1991): 96 p. Tuori, Jussi. Grand Duchy of Finland, 1856–1874 (Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman, c2009): v, 128 p., col. ill., map, port., 31 cm. + 1 CD-ROM in pocket.

FRANCE Chauvet, Michele, and JeanFrancois Brun. David Feldman Presente Ceres, 1849 (Geneve, Suisse: David Feldman, c2009): iv, 192 p., col. ill., 31 cm. Yvert & Tellier. Catalogue de timbres-poste (Amiens, [France]: Yvert & Tellier, [2002?]): ill. (many col.), 22 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

FRENCH COLONIES Harrison & Sons. France Libre: The Story of the Free French Colonial Stamps ([London: Harrison & Sons], [n.d.]: [16] p., ill., 23 cm. [Call No. VERT FILE G5821 .F815 S887]

GERMAN COLONIES Bartels, Reinhold. Bahnpost und Bahnpostentwertungen in den Deutschen Kolonien und bei der Deutschen Post in China (Kropp [Germany]: Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bahnpost e.V. im Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V., c2005): 87 p., col. ill., 21 cm. 168

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GERMANY Building Series Study Group. The 1948 Building Series of West Germany ([n.p.]: Building Series Study Group, 2000): 57 p., ill., 28 cm. [Shelved with the SpecSheet] Hammonds, John. Bohemia & Moravia (Bray, Maidenhead, England: Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain, 2009): v, 76 p., ill., 30 cm. Kuhlmann, Erich, and Eberhard Kuhlmann. Worterbuch zur deutschen Postgeschichte (Hamburg [Germany]: Im Selbstverlag, 1990): 89, XX p. Maker Verlag. Maker Briefmarkenhandelsliste Bund (Bielefeld: Maker-Verlag, c1988): 13, A0–A399, B0–B41, C0–C5, D0–D19, E0–D19, F0–F3 p., ill., 23 cm. Michel. Michel Internationales Taschenbuch der Postgebuhren (Unterschleissheim [Germany]: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH, c2009): 293 p., tables, 24 cm. Third Reich Study Group. Germany Philatelic Society. Composition Listings of Organic German Military Units; A Third Reich Study Group Project ([United States]: Third Reich Study Group, Germany Philatelic Society, 1980): 32 p., chiefly charts, ill., 28 cm. [Call No. G6081 .M644 G374co 1980] Wagner, Siegfried R. Sonder- und Werbestempel der Deutschen Bundeswehr (Munchen: S.R. Wagner, 1981): 57 p.

GREAT BRITAIN Ewen, H. L’Estrange. Priced Catalogue of the Adhesive Postage and Telegraph Stamps, Postmarks & Obliterations of the United

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Kingdom (Swanage, [U.K.]: H. L’Estrange Ewen (Bournemouth : Pardy & Son, Printers), [1895?]): 104 p., ill., 20 cm. [Call No. CLOSED STACKS] Guzzio, George T. Edward (All for Love) [exhibit] ([Brooklyn, NY]: [G.T. Guzzio], [2002]): [128] p. (1 folded), ill., 28 cm. Hart, Jerone R. Great Britain: The First Three Readers Digest Coils, 1981 to 1984 [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): [15] leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. —. Great Britain’s 1841 Penny Red Imperforate: Uses, Cancels and Platings [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): ca. 150 leaves; col. ill., 28 cm. Huggins, Alan K., and Colin Baker. Collect British Postal Stationery ([Gerrards Cross, U.K.]: GB Philatelic Publications on behalf of the Great Britain Philatelic Society and the Postal Stationery Society, 2007): xiv, 151 p., col. ill., 31 cm. Knight, Donald R. The Exhibitions: Great White City, Shepherds Bush, London: 70th Anniversary, 1908–1978 (London: D.R. Knight; Printed by Barnard & Westwood Ltd., 1978): 72 p., ill., maps. Madden, Don, and Karl Louis. The Dublin Find (Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire [England]: Mike Jackson Publications, 2006): v, 45, A1–A12 p., ill., 30 cm. [Call No. G5741 .R221 M179] Morgan, Glenn H., and Graham M. Wilson. British Stamp Exhibitions: A Priced CD Catalogue of Sheets, Cards and Labels [computer file] (Cliviger, Burnley, Lancs [England]: Graham M Wilson, 2006): 1

computer optical disk, col. ill.; 4¾ in. [Call No. G5741 .E96 M848b] Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation. Die Erfindung der Briefmarke = The Invention of Stamps: Essays and Printing Trials from the F.A. Philbrick Collection and the “Prussian find” ([n.p.]: Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation: 128 p., col. ill., 28 cm. [Call No. G5741 .P856 E67e] Norris, James A. A Photographic & Cartographic Compilation of London District Post Offices in the Victorian & Edwardian Era (Carshalton, Surrey, England: London Postal History Group, c2009): 134 p., chiefly ill., maps, 30 cm. Robertson, Alan W. A History of the Ship Letters of the British Isles (Limassol [Cyprus]: James Bendon, [1993]): 2 v., ill., facsims., 25 cm. [Call No. HE6233 .R649h 1993] Royal Mail. Royal Mail Special Stamps 1989 (London: Royal Mail Stamps, 1989): 39 p., col. ill.

GREECE Asimakopulos, Nicholas. The First Greek Stamp: The History, the R. Decrees, the Dies, the Plates, the Printing (Wyckoff, NJ: N. Asimakopulos, c2005): viii, 100 p., ill. (many col.), photos. (part col.), facsims., ports., table, 28 cm. [Call No. G6811 .P718 A832p 2005]

GREENLAND Gilberg, Rolf. Gronland set gennem 50 ars frimaerker 1938– 1988 (Kobenhavn: Kalaallit Allakkerivieat/Gronlands

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Postvaesen og Det Gronlandske Selskab, 1988): 127 p.

HAWAII Nettles, Elizabeth. The Iolani Palace Post Card [exhibit] [computer file] ([n.p.]: [Elizabeth Nettles], 2009): 1 computer optical disk, 4¾ in.

HELIGOLAND Oliver, Allan. Heligoland Listing ([n.p.]: A. Oliver, 2007): 106 p., ill., 30 cm. [Call No. G6312 .H4 O48 2007]

INDEXES Peterson, Charles J., and Larry F. Ballantyne. The Penny Post: Cumulative Index, Volumes 1–16 (Jan. 1991–Oct. 2008) ([n.p.]: Carriers and Locals Society, [2009]): 100 p., 26 cm. [Shelved with The Penny Post]

INDIA Contractor, S.F. Indian F.P.Os. 1914 to 1920 ([n.p.]: India Study Circle, [n.d.]). [Call No. VERT FILE G7651 .M644 C764] Hart, Jerone R. Victorian Postal Stationery of India Used at Aden [exhibit] ([n.p.]: J.R. Hart, [2010]): [22] leaves, col. ill., 28 cm.

IRAN Hackmey, Joseph. Persia, the Classic Period to 1879 (Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman, c2009): vi, 129 p., col. ill., port., 31 cm. + 1 CD-ROM in pocket.

IRELAND Hopkins, A. E. The Postage Stamps of the Irish Free State: A Descriptive Priced Catalogue, Revised and Completed to June, 1927 (Bath, [U.K.]: A.E. Hopkins, 1927): 34 p., ill. 170

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ISRAEL Fisher, Lawrence. Jewish Homeland, the Struggle for Survival [exhibit] (Raanana, Israel: L. Fisher, 2009): [84] leaves, ill., 29 cm. —. Jewish Homeland, the Struggle for Survival [computer file] [exhibit] (Raanana, Israel: L. Fisher, 2009): 1 computer optical disk, col. ill., 4¾ in.

ITALY Commercianti Italiani Filatelici. Catalogo unificato 2004. Unificato 2004 Italia Regno e Repubblica: Catalogazione commpleta e fotografie di tutti i francobolli dal 1861 al giugno 2003 [computer file] (Milano: Commercianti Italiani Filatelici s.r.l., c2003): 1 computer optical disc, 4¾ in. Longhi, Fiorenzo. Catalogo storico descrittivo degli aerogrammi Zeppelin di Italia, Colonie italiane, San Marino, Vaticano, 1929–1939 ([n.p.]: Vaccari, 2009): 281 p., ill.

JAPAN Japanese Philatelic Society. 2008 Handbook of Japanese Postmarks ([Tokyo]: [Japanese Philatelic Society], [2008?]): 383 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. G7961 .P857 H236 2008] Michel. Michel Ubersee-Katalog. Band 9, Teil 2, Japan, Korea, Mongolei (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2008, 2010): 893 p. (2008), 1195 p. (2010): ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

JOINT ISSUES O’Brien, Charles J., III. Joint Issues 1959–1994 [exhibit] ([n.p.]: [Charles J. O’Brien III], [2008]): ca. 200 leaves, col. ill., 29 cm.

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KUWAIT Donaldson, A.N. (Alec Neil). The History of the Postal Service in Kuwait, 1775–1959 (Bombay: Jal Cooper, 1968): 15 p., ill., facsims., map, photos., ports., 25 cm. [Call No. VERT FILE G7601 .P859 D676h 1968]

LATIN AMERICA Child, Jack. Miniature Messages: The Semiotic and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps (Durham, NC: Duke University Texas Press, 2008).

MALAYA Malaya Study Group. Malaya Study Group; A Display to the Royal Philatelic Society, London, 15th October 2009 (Wheathampstead Herts, UK: Malaya Study Group, [2009]): 40 p., col. ill., 30 cm. [Call No. G8031 .E96 M239]

MAURITIUS Feldman, David. Mauritius; The Greatest Stamp Collection in the World (Geneva: David Feldman, 1986): 16 p., col. ill.

MEXICO Irwin, Henry. The White and Green Seals of Sonora (Elmhurst, IL: Mexico-Elmhurst Philatelic Society International, c1971): 20 p., ill., 28 cm. [Shelved with the journal]

FAMOUS STAMPS & COLLECTIONS British Library. Stamps (London: British Library, 2009): 64 p., col. ill., 13 cm.

NETHERLANDS Adema, Kees. Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil ([U.K.]: Stuart Rossiter Trust (Totton, Hampshire, U.K.: Printed by

Hobbs the Printers), 2010): v. (xiv, 168 p.), col. ill., maps, ports., 29 cm.

NEW ZEALAND Odenweller, Robert P. The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, 1855–1873; The Chalon Head Issues (London/Wellington: Royal Philatelic Society London/ Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, 2009): xxi, 362 p., col. ill., 29 cm. Harwood, Jack. New Zealand Postal Notes 1886–1986 ([n.p.]: The Author, 2010): 130 p., col. ill., 28 cm. Startup, R.M. Postal Stationery of New Zealand (Auckland, N.Z.: Postal History Society of New Zealand, 1968): 80 p., ill., 26 cm. [Call No. G9081 .P860 S796p]

NORTH AMERICA Michel. Michel Ubersee-Katalog. Band 1, Teil 1, Nordamerika (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2007/2008): 602 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

OMAN Duster, Joachim. The Official Envelopes of State of Oman and Dhufar from 1967 to 1986 (Pforzheim [Germany]: Oman Studies Centre, 2005): 57 p., col. ill., 30 cm. [Call No. G7560 .D853] Gunn, Alastair, and Calvin Allen. Aspects of Omani Postal History ([United Kingdom]: The Authors, 2006): 72 p., ill., 30 cm. [Call No. VERT FILE G7561 .P856 G976a 2006]

POLAND Auleytner, Julian. Filatelistyczne klejnoty w koronie II 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 171

Rzeczpospolitej 1918–1920 = Philatelic Gems in the Crown of the II Republic of Poland, 1918– 1920 (Warszawa, Poland: Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna TWP, 2009): 167 p., col. ill., 31 cm. (in slipcase) [Call No. CLOSED STACKS] Bojanowski, Ted. First Polish Army 1943–1945; Helena Sobczyk Correspondence (Bowie, MD: Ted Bojanowski, 2010): [16] leaves, col. ill., 28 cm.

d’Etudes des Preobliteres-CEP, [1956]): 14 leaves.

ROMANIA Dragomir, Kiriac. Stampilografie postala: Romania, 1822–1910 (Tirgu Mures [Romania]: Asociatia filatelistilor Mures, [1990]): 301 p., ill.

PONZI, CHARLES Zuckoff, Mitchell. Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (New York: Random House, c2005): xiii, 390 p., ill., 24 cm. [Call No. HE6184 .I62 Z94]

POSTCARDS Bozarth, Theodore W. Postcard Collector Guide to the Markings on the Backs of Postcards ([Iola, WI]: Postcard Collector, [1986]): 32 p., ill. Cox, Roy. How To Price & Sell Old Picture Postcards: A Guide to the Profitable Postcard Business (Baltimore, Md.: R. Cox; Braemar Press, c1986): a-f, 64 p. Harrison, Barbara A. The Golden Age of Postcards, 1898–1918 [exhibit] (Ringoes, NJ: B.A. Harrison, [2005]): 1 v., ill., 28 cm. [Call No. EXHIBITS] Schultz, William R. Toll Gates and Houses with Postcards [exhibit] [CD-ROM] (Westchester, PA: W. Schultz, 2009): 1 computer optical disk, 4¾ in.

PRECANCELS Engelhardt, Wilhelm. Le Cercle Belge d’Etudes des PreobliteresCEP- presente: Etude sur Les preobliteres autrichians (Bruxelles: Le Cercle Belge

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RUSSIA GW Travel. The Silk Road (Altrincham, Cheshire, England: GW Travel, [2005]): 51 p., col. ill., maps, 30 cm.

SOUTH AMERICA Michel. Michel UberseeKatalog. Band 3, Teil 1, Sudamerika (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2009/2010): 1,084 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES] —. Michel Ubersee-Katalog. Band 3, Teil 2, Sudamerika (Unterschlessheim: Schwaneberger Verlag, 2009/2010): 953 p., ill., 21 cm. [Call No. CATALOGUES]

SWITZERLAND

SOUVENIR CARDS Souvenir Card Collectors Society. Souvenir Cards; A Chronological Listing 1960–2009 ([United States]: Souvenir Card Collectors Society, 2010): [30] p., 28 cm. [Shelved with Souvenir Card Journal]

SPAIN Perpina Sebria, Antonio. El correo certificado franqueado con sellos (Madrid: Federacion Espanola de Sociedades Filatelicas, [1989]): 223 p., col. ill., 24 cm.

STAMPS Norris, David A. The “I can’t believe we’re doing an article on stamps” Article (Marion, OH: Mental Floss, LLC, [2005]): p. [50]–55, col. ill., 28 cm.

SWEDEN Odfjell, Abraham, and Martin Jorgensen. Sveriges Frimerker 1855–1944 (Oslo: Norsk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift, 1946): 61

p., ill., tables, 26 cm. [Call No. G6950 .O24s 1946] Rudbeck, Johannes. Svenska poststamplar i Postmuseum (Stockholm: Aktiebolaget Fahlcrantz’ Boktryskeri, 1920): 9 p., ill., 23 cm. Bader, Theo. Jungholz; Das kleine Zollausschlussgebiet in Tirol (Koblenz [Austria]: Theo Bader und Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreich e.V., c1996): 112 p. Frick, W. 1949 Technik und Landschaft ([Switzerland]: Verlag Verband Schweiz, PhilatelistenVereine, [1974?]): 44 p., ill., 30 cm. Jaggi. Suisse = Schweiz, Liechtenstein (Lausanne, Suisse: Editions J.-P. Jaggi, 1972): 104 p., col. ill. LaBlonde, Charles J. Censorship of Swiss Postcards During World War II [exhibit] (Colorado Springs, CO: C.J. LaBlonde, 2009): [24] leaves, col. ill., 30 cm. Schweizerischer Verein der Poststempelsammler. Sonderausgabe der Poststempelsammler = Edition speciale le collectionneur d’empreintes posteales (EbnatKappel: Schweizerischer Verein der Poststempelsammler, 2009): 62 p., ill., 21 cm. [Shelved with the journal]

TOPICAL COLLECTING Cockburn, Helen. Women on Stamps, Volume Four (Albuquerque, NM: American Topical Association, c1999): 116 p., ill., 23 cm. [Call No. HE6183 .A1 A512a no.136]

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Devenis, Keistutis Peter. The Wonderful World of Golf Stamps (Concord, MA: Keistutis Peter Devenis, 2008): 2 v. (206, 664 p.), col. ill., 30 cm. [Call No. HE6183 .G625 D489w 2008] Utepbergenov, Mentay S. Istoriia mirovogo kino v markakh, Katalog Mentaia = Histoire du cinema mondial sur les timbres, Catalogue de Mentay ([Kazakhstan?]: Sae Tur Books, 1997): 374, [62] p., col. ill., 22 cm. [Call No. HE6183 .M935 U89]

TRANSATLANTIC MAIL Guillet, Edwin C. The Great Migration: The Atlantic Crossing by Sailing-Ship Since 1770 ([Toronto, ON, Canada]: Toronto University Press, 1967, c1963): xii, 284, 16 p.

TURKEY Plantinga, Max. The Duloz Issues of Turkey, 1865–1887 (Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman, c2009): vi, 190 p., col. ill., map, port., 31 cm. + 1 CD-ROM in pocket.

UNITED STATES Abajian, Paul G. The 5 Cent Franklin Stamp of 1847, Vermont Usages [exhibit] ([Vermont]: Paul G. Abajian, 2010): [28] leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. Bauer, William H. Otsego County, New York [exhibit] ([n.p.]: [William H. Bauer], [2002?]): [ca. 150 leaves], ill., 30 cm. —. Colorado 1858–1876 [exhibit] (Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library, [2006?]): viii, [160], 19, 12, 12 p., col. ill., 28 cm. Beecher, Henry W., and Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz. Updated United States Domestic Rates 1999–2009, and, Updated United States International Rates, 174

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1996–2009 ([n.p.]: [Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz], [2009]): [111] p., tables, 30 cm. [Call No. (G3701 .P8575 B414up 2009] Berthelot, Henry J. Index to “U.S. Cancellations” 1932–1946 ([n.p.]: Henry J. Berthelot, [197-?]): [15] leaves, [ca. 150] p., ill., 28 cm. Byne, Richard H. Index to the Texas Postal History Society Journal, Volumes 1–20 (1973–1995) (San Marcos, TX: William H.P. Emery, [1995]): 54 p., 29 cm. [Shelved with the journal] Croce, Tony. An Index to Colors in U.S. Postage (Franklin, MA: Tony Croce, c2008): 54 p., 22 cm. Datz, Stephen R. Scott Catalogue of Errors on U.S. Postage Stamps (Sidney, OH: Scott Publishing Co., c2009): xiv, 218 p., col. ill., 23 cm. [Call No. G3701.E72 D234e 2009] Drabyk, Jon E. NAMWHS Journal: National Air Mail Week, May 15–21, 1938 [computer file] (Piscataway, NJ: National Air Mail Week Historical Society, [2009], c1986-2009): 1 computer optical disc, ill. (many col.), facsims., 4¾ in. (DVD-R National Air Mail Week) Hale, James B. Territorial and Early Statehood Covers of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ([Madison, WI]: [Wisconsin Postal History Society], [1992?]): 56 p., ill., 28 cm. Helbock, Richard W. United States Doanes (Scappoose, OR: La Posta Publications, 2002): 336 p., ill., tables, 22 cm. Jakubson, Julian W. Flag Over Porch Plate Number Coil Stamps (Guilford, CT: Philatelic Arts, c2006): 56 p., col. ill., 29 cm.

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Krakow, Kenneth K. Georgia Place Names (Macon, GA: Winship, c1994.): xiv, 272 p., maps (some on lining papers), 24 cm. [Call No. G3921 .P855 K89g 1994] Mahler, Michael. Documents Bearing U.S. Revenue Stamps of the Civil War Era, [pt. I-III]. How Were U.S. Civil War Documentary and Proprietary Revenues Made Available to the Public? ([Lawrence, KS]: [American Revenue Association], [1982– 1993]): [70] p., ill., 28 cm. Markovitz, Robert L. United States Newspaper & Periodical Stamps Compendium ([n.p.]: Robert L. Markovits, c1984): 1 v. in various pagings, ill., 28 cm. Patera, Alan H. Wyoming Postmaster Compensation (Lake Grove OR: The Depot, 1989): 32 p., chiefly tables, 28 cm. [Shelved with the Journal] Perry, Michael O. Research Paper; No. 2. 13th ed. Folded-style booklet checklist; includes booklets and self-adhesive sheetlets from 1977 through December 2003 (Columbus, OH: Bureau Issues Association, 2003–2004): v, 54, MDI-1–MDI-24, CB-1–CB-20 p., chiefly tables, 29 cm. [Call No. G3700 .B952r no.2 13th ed. 20032004] —. Research Paper; No. 2. 11th ed. Folded-style booklet checklist; includes booklets and self-adhesive sheetlets from 1977 through March 1997 (Madison, WI: Bureau Issues Association, c1997): [3], 62 p., chiefly tables, 29 cm. [Call No. G3700 .B952r no.2 11th ed. 1997b] —. Research Paper; No. 2. 10th ed. Folded-style booklet checklist; includes booklets and self-adhesive sheetlets from 1977 to December

1996 (Madison, WI: Bureau Issues Association, c1996): [3], 62 p. (loose-leaf), ill., 29 cm. [Call No. G3700 .B952r no.2 10th ed. 1996] Porter, Barry, and Howard Richoux. Barry Porter’s Catalog of Virginia Hunting Stamps ([n.p.: [n.p.], 2007): 71 p., col. ill., 28 cm. —. Barry Porter’s Catalog of South Dakota Hunting and Fishing Stamps ([n.p.]: [n.p.], 2007): 171 p., ill., 28 cm. Rosenberg, Barry, and Catherine Macaulay. Mavericks of the Sky (New York: William Morrow, Harper Collins Publishers, c2006): 341 p., [16] p. of plates, ill., 24 cm. Ryle, Russell, and Evelyn Ryle. Registered U.S.A. (Ellettsville, IN: Ryle Publications, c2009): 157 p., col. ill., 25 cm. Schultz, William R. U.S. Towns Named “Orange”: An Orange Brainstorm! Stampless to 1900 [exhibit] ([n.p.]: [William R. Schultz], [2010]): 17 leaves, col. ill., 28 cm. + 1 computer optical disk. —. Five-cent Rate, 1845–1851, Chester County, Pennsylvania [exhibit] [computer file] (West Chester, PA: William R. Schultz, 2010): 1 computer optical disk (17 leaves, col. ill.), 4¾ in. (CD-ROM IP 38). —. Five-cent Rate, 1845–1851, Chester County, Pennsylvania [exhibit] (West Chester, PA: William R. Schultz, 2010): 17 leaves, col. ill., 29 cm. Stephen, Homer. The Frontier Postmasters (Stepheville, TX: H. Stephen; Printed by Dublin Progress, 1952): 102 p., ill.

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Stotts, Denise, and Martin Richardson. Ohio Postal History Society Presents Ohio Postal History Society Journal Index Issues 1 thru 62 ([n.p.]: Ohio Postal History Society, c1993): 28 leaves, 28 cm. [Shelved with Ohio Postal History Journal] United Postal Stationery Society. The Postal Stationery of the Possessions and Administrative Areas of the United States (Chester, VA: United Postal Stationery Society, 2009): vi, 212 p., ill., 29 cm. [Call No. G3691 .P860 U586p 2009] United States Post Office Department. An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to the Post Office Department (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863): 16 p. [Call No. GOV DOC]

United States Post Office Department. Postmasters Guide, 30th Anniversary Celebration, United States Air Mail Service, May 15–21, 1948 (Washington, DC: Post Office Department, [1948]): 13 p. UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION Katscher, Leopold. The Universal Postal Union; Its Rise and Development ([n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]): leaves 213–233. URUGUAY Schnell, Roger G. Exhibiting on the “CHEAP” [exhibit] (Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Roger G. Schnell, [2009]): [ca. 100 leaves], ill., 28 cm. —. The First Airmail Issues of Uruguay (Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Roger G. Schnell, [2009?]): ca. 150 leaves, ill., 29 cm.

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ICELAND Iceland Postal Rates 1870–2009, by Brian Flack. Published 2009 by the Scandinavia Philatelic Society, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Softcover, wire bound, 246 pages, 8½ by 11½ inches. Available for £16 plus postage to SPS members, £20 plus shipping to nonmembers from Terry Wagg, SPS Librarian, 28 Philip Nurse Rd., Dersingham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6WH, United Kingdom. Payment details, including PayPal, from secretary@scandps. org.uk. The author first published his book on Iceland postal rates in 1998. This edition has been updated and also expanded in several areas like air mail to the Allied zones of Germany; additional classes of mail including commercial documents, samples, newspapers and materials for the blind; and the complex rates for parcels both domestic and abroad. The first chapter deals with inland rates for letters, postcards, money orders, COD and express fees, printed matter, registration,

and value declared insurance. Special motor bus (Bílpóst) rates for parcels were in effect from 1933 to 1942. The internal rates are listed by “period in effect” from 1870 to 2009. Chapter 2 focuses on surface rates to Nordic countries from 1870 to 1992. Although special rates to Denmark and the Faroe Islands existed in the early 1920s, mail to Norway, Sweden, and Finland remained at foreign UPU rates until each country joined the Nordic Postal Union between 1922 and 1935. Surface rates to Europe and elsewhere were abandoned in 1992 in favor of air mail fees for Class 1 and Class 2 mail. The third chapter addresses surface mail to all countries outside Scandinavia for the period 1875 to 1992. The periods that they were in effect are clearly defined in appropriate tables that apply to letters, postcards, printed matter, small packets, registration, AR service, express, postal money orders, COD, and insured mail. Air mail rates are covered in the next chapter, beginning with the supplemental or additional charges for air service. By the 1950s, rate tables became more complex with Scandinavian and then other European air mail, together with destination group rates for the rest of the world. The air rates are for 1928 to 2009. The tables are invaluable as rates changed frequently and existed

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for short periods of time. Examples of short periods are February 1, 1978 to April 30, 1978; and August 1, 1980 to October 31, 1980. The air mail rate tables take up nearly 100 pages. Author Flack includes rates for pioneer flights such as those by Italo Balbo, Richard Light, and Thor Solberg as well as Zeppelin flights that carried Iceland mail. One chapter deals with local delivery rates from 1882 to 1970, when the local post was replaced by domestic rates. Parcel rates to other countries also have a separate chapter. AR or Avis de Réception rates are discussed briefly as they were the UPU mandated rates. A bibliography of sources concludes the book. For postal history collectors, this book by Brian Flack is a must-have. The typeface is easy to read and occasional color illustrations of covers add to the eye appeal. — Alan Warren

MARITIME MAIL North Atlantic Packets: Departures and Arrivals 1818–1840, by James R. Pullin. Published 2009 by the author. Casebound, dust jacket, 312 pages, 9 by 11½ inches. Available from the author, 2837 Wright Avenue, Winter Park FL 32789, or e-mail [email protected]. This book developed from the author’s need to document postal history items in his own collection. The details on postal rates during this period and the comings and goings of sailing vessels carrying mail between the ports of New York, Liverpool, and London were not available pre178

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viously in a single source. Pullin spent years tracking down the details in museums, libraries, and archives. The information covers the period when such sailing ships carried mail, passengers, and cargo up until the time when steamships took over the business. Each sailing line is discussed from its origins and the activity of each ship during the period. Specific lines are the Black Ball, Red Star, Blue Swallow Tail, and Dramatic lines of Liverpool, and the Black X and Red Swallow Tail lines of London. Each sailing vessel and its eventual fate are detailed. Research into newspapers of the time provides stories of a ship’s grounding or sinking during storms. Interspersed in the text are wonderful color illustrations of covers that traveled on these packets. Indeed, these illustrations are one of the highlights and pleasures of the book. Each letter is meticulously described with respect to the postal markings, the rates, and the routes. Tables provide inland letter rates of the time for the United States, Canada, and England. The second half of the book is devoted to details for each ship by sailing line. The first table lists the ships, their captains, years of service, and the name of the vessel that replaced it. The second table for each line is a chronological listing of departure and arrival dates with the name of the ship and its captain, and pertinent remarks such as weather delays and wrecks, and first and last voyage. A bibliography, list of newspapers used for source information, and an

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index conclude the book. One of the visual delights of Pullin’s work is the use of maritime and philatelic related illustrations depicting ships, bow figureheads, house flags, and other items. A listing credits the sources for these pictures. Jim Pullin has furnished students

of postal history with the tools to analyze their own covers during this period that were sent across the North Atlantic Ocean by sailing ships. His research and descriptions will serve collectors for many years. The book is a monument to his passion and perseverance. — Alan Warren

PERU Peru Cancellation Handbook 1858– 1873, by Erik A. Emsing. Published 2008 by the author. Casebound, 122 pages, 8½ by 11½ inches. Cost and shipping details from the author: eaemsing@ hotmail.com. When Erik Emsing began to study the nineteenth-century cancellations of Peru some fifteen years ago, he found details were lacking, information was not well organized, and many cancels were missing. He set about organizing the data using methods of classification and identification, and preparing good illustrations. This work is more than a handbook, since it includes valuations as well. His introduction presents guidelines to an orderly process for studying cancellations, beginning with identification of the stamps from this period. Cancels are then sorted by class and type, and values are assigned with a cancellation price guide. He illustrates and provides brief descriptions of the stamps issued by Peru from the first Coat of Arms issue in 1858 to the second Llama issue of 1873. 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 179

Emsing then lists the postal rates during this period for single and multiple weight letters, registration fee, and local and railway letters. These are followed by British and French rates for ships carrying mail between Peru and other Central or South American ports, and to America and Europe. The next listing shows the names of more than 200 post offices operating in twenty different postal districts during the period 1858–1873. He describes additional facilities that handled Peruvian mail such as the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, the Lima-Callao-Chorillos railway, and British and French consular mail services. Another chapter identifies fifteen classes of cancels including plain and dotted ovals, circular dates, straight line, manuscript, mute cancels, railway and ship marks, and foreign cancels among others. These are all nicely illustrated for visual identification. The next series of tables illustrates each cancel type within each class, and assigns a catalog number. The final tally is 245 distinct types of cancellations. The price guide is a tabulation of the cancellations by class listing the city or town, the cancel type, the postal district, any ink colors used with the marking, and the value in Euros associated with each cancel. In front of each class and subclass listing are some illustrations as a reminder of how the cancel appears — a nice device to help eliminate confusion. Values are for the cancel on a stamp, not on cover. 180

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The illustrations are very good and are nicely laid out without giving a cramped feeling. They are also slightly enlarged from the originals to reveal more detail. With Emsing’s catalogue approach to preparing this handbook, there is no need for an index and none is provided. In the review copy there was a printing ink deficiency on page 46 that obscures the identification of cancel E35. Although the author acknowledges the help of others in his introduction, a brief bibliography would be useful for students of this period of Peruvian marcophily. — Alan Warren

WORLDWIDE Railway Disaster Mail, by Robin Gwynn and Norman Hoggarth. Published 2010 by The Stuart Rossiter Trust. Hardcover, 322 pages. Available for UK£65 (approximately US$98) plus postage

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Read any good books lately, or maybe some that weren’t up to expectation? The PLR would like to solicit short, thoughtful reviews of new books you have chosen to add (or not to add!) to your philatelic library. Please include as much bibliographic information as possible. Address all submissions or inquiries to Barbara Boal, Philatelic Literature Review, 100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, PA 16823; e-mail baboal@stamps. org; or fax 814-933-6128.

— £5 within the UK, £9.50 ($15) to Europe, £19.50 ($30) rest of the world air, £17 ($26) rest of the world surface, from Richard Wheatley, 7 Manor Croft, Leeds, England LS15 9BW, e-mail: [email protected], or from Aerophil, 613 Championship Dr., Oxford, CT, USA, e-mail: [email protected], Fax +1 203 888 9237. This book opens a doorway for collectors wishing to pursue a branch of postal history to which until now there has been no printed guide: railway disaster mail. The first printed work on disaster mail, Gaston Tournier’s Les Plis Accidentés Français, published in 1932, devoted just a couple of pages to covers salvaged from rail wrecks. Tournier knew of eight such events. Adrian Hopkins investigated more

widely, and some two dozen pages of the final edition of his History of Wreck Covers (1970) deal with a total of forty-four rail events. Otherwise, apart from occasional magazine articles — most notably in La Catastrophe, the journal of the Wreck and Crash Mail Society, since its first appearance in 1995 — there has, quite simply, been nothing published. This book is on a very different scale from Tournier and Hopkins, and records posted material salvaged from more than 500 rail casualties of one sort or another. It aims to open up a new and worthwhile subject by bringing together all information regarding mail recovered from railway accidents into one place, worldwide and in date order. It attempts to include all accidents on land that have occurred on railway property. The listing in this volume records cachets, labels, and explanatory post office letters used on or with items recovered from rail casualties, also manuscript notes where it seems probable that they were or may have been written by postal authorities. It also includes a handful of cases where no specific explanatory markings or letters are known, but surviving mail can definitely be proven to have been involved in rail accidents. Wherever possible, factual reports have been cited giving details of accidents and background information. Not only are accidents, derailments and train collisions included but so are train fires, highjack-

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ings, hold-ups, looted mail and theft, and the results of train collisions with motor vehicles, natural disasters, washouts, boulders on tracks, landslides, avalanches, and acts of war. The authors have aimed to include only rail-related incidents, but because the circumstances of many incidents are obscure, it is possible that one or two of the accidents recorded in this volume may eventually prove not in fact to be railway orientated. The authors also have included an account of the USA “Train Late” / “Mail Delayed” cancellations that have been encountered, and for convenience have grouped these together under the first reference in 1891 although they cover the period 1891–1914. Also included in the book are cases where mail was “damaged on the fly.” There is a very useful Analysis of Entries, which lists each wreck by date, type of wreck or accident, and location. For each listing, there is a description of the wreck, and each ca-

chet or label is shown. The cachet and label illustrations are in color, which makes identification of markings much easier. The source of the information on the details of the wreck and postal markings also is shown, such as the Wreck & Crash Mail Society journal La Catastrophe. Unlike the companion book by the same authors — Maritime Disaster Mail, published in 2003 — there are no rarity factors of postal markings and covers, which would have been useful in determining the value of covers. The book is divided into eight different chapters, each covering a different time period, starting with 1850 and ending in 1995. There is a short appendix that lists train wrecks where postal markings are known but the dates of the wreck are not certain. And finally, there is an index that lists wrecks by location. The book is very well done and will be an essential reference for collectors of railway disaster mail. — Ken Sanford

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Stamps and the Mail: Imagery, Icons, & Identity September 30–October 1 Smithsonian National Postal Museum • Washington, DC

Keynote speaker Jack Child is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the American University, Washington, DC. He is also Assistant Dean, School of International Service; Director, English Language Institute; and Founding Director, Center for Teaching Excellence at AU. Dr. Child was born of American parents in Buenos Aires, and lived in South America for eighteen years. Following graduation from Yale he entered the U.S. Army, and served for twenty years as a Latin American Specialist until his retirement as a lieutenant colonel. While on active duty he earned his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in the international relations of Latin America from the School of International Service of American University. In 1980 he joined SIS as Assistant Dean. Two years later he moved to the Department of Language and Foreign Studies. His research has focused on cultural studies and conflict resolution in Latin America with a focus on Antarctica and the Falklands/Malvinas, and peace-keeping and confidence-building measures. His interest in high latitudes has taken him on fourteen trips as staff lecturer and guide aboard expedition cruise vessels to Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands, including South Georgia and the Malvinas/Falklands. As he says in his user biography in Wikipedia: One of [my interests] is postage stamps, specifically those of Latin America, South American Antarctica, and the islands of the far South Atlantic (Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich). I use these stamps extensively in my academic publications, lectures, and PowerPoint presentations my students and I make. I am trying to nail down copyright issues concerning the use of postage stamp images on both the main Wikipedia page (in English) and the Commons.”

Professor Child’s most recent book, Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008) was reviewed in The American Philatelist, Vol. 123, No. 10 (2009): 1004. His article “Semiotics and Stamps; How the Academic Discipline of Linguistics Can Help Us Understand Our Stamps,” appeared in The American Philatelist, Vol. 124, No. 1 (2010): 48–58. Other publications discussing postage stamps include “Researching the Politics and History of Latin American Postage Stamps at the American Philatelic Research Library, State College, PA,” Philatelic Literature Review (July 2003); “The Politics and Semiotics of Argentine Postage Stamps,” in Essays of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (March 2005), pp.1–34; and “The Politics and Semiotics of the Smallest Icons of Popular Culture: Latin American Postage Stamps,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (February 2005). 2010 / Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 183

Philatelic Literature Clearinghouse The Clearinghouse lists philatelic literature for sale or wanted by PLR readers. The number at the beginning of each item identifies the prospective seller or buyer. The names and addresses of the sellers and buyers appear at the end of the Clearinghouse. Please write directly to the buyer or seller, not to the APRL, unless the APRL itself is the seller/buyer. Each listing costs $1. Please list only one book or periodical title per item. Several issues of one journal title or auction catalogue may be listed as one item. PLR reserves the right to reject any listings submitted. Typewritten lists would be greatly appreciated ABBREVIATIONS: HB, hardbound, SB, softbound; PB, paperback; PC, photocopy; LL, looseleaf; CB, comb bound; CC, card cover; dj, dust jacket; w/PR, with prices realized; MO, make offer. Send Clearinghouse listings to Deb Hanslovan, 100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, PA 16823; e-mail [email protected]. The deadline for each quarter’s issue is the 15th day of the first month of the quarter: January 15, April 15, July 15, and October 15.

Philatelic Literature for Sale 1. The Greatest of Expositions Completely Illustrated — Official View of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Official Photographic Company of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 pub. Original 1904 publication, wine cloth over beveled boards. HB, 11x9 format, color plate + 288 pages, 284 of which are b&w photo pages of exhibits, buildings, monuments, views, etc., with descriptions. Mostly one 8x6 photo per page. Non-philatelic. I noted 5 pages with small tears at bottom, none impinging on photos, and binding slightly shaken. Overall a very nice copy. $240. 1. Billig’s Philatelic Handbooks. 20 different available, most priced at $14–$19 each. E-mail or write for listing. — 1. Pacific 97 Handbook / The Congress Book 1997, 63rd American Philatelic Congress Book, 1997. Cloth HB, iv + 400 p. + xxvii color plates + reprint of 1936 NZ 1d George V embossed envelope stamp made from original die. Well illustrated, as new copy. $17. 1. Essays for U.S. Adhesive Postage Stamps by Clarence W. Brazer, 1977 Quarterman reprint of 1941 book plus addenda from The American Philatelist, xx + 295 p., extensively illustrated. Cloth HB with DJ. Quite scarce as new copy. $68.

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1. The Postage Stamps of the United States by John L. Luff, 1981 Quarterman reprint of the c1940 “GOSSIP” edition, not a reprint of the 1902 edition. Cloth HB with DJ, 319 p. illustrated. As new. $44. 1. The United States Postage Stamps of the 19th Century by Lester G. Brookman, 1966–7, 3 vols. Cloth HB, 882 p., extensively illustrated. THE work on classic U.S. Virtually new copies. $115. 1. The Harry F. Allen Collection of Black Jacks — A Study of the Stamp and Its Use by Maryette B. Lane, 1969. Cloth HB, x + 148 p., very well illustrated. VF copy. $55. 1. The United States 1869 Issue — An Essay-Proof History by Fred P. Schueren, 1974. Cloth HB, xiii + 127 p., very well illustrated. A Collectors Club of Chicago publication. Regular edition of 350 copies. Virtually as new copy of this somewhat scarce title. $78. 1. The United States Commemorative Stamps of the 20th Century by Max G. Johl, 1947, 2 vols. covering 1901–1947. Cloth HB with DJ, 750+ p., extensively illustrated. Very nice set of this comprehensive standard reference work. $76. 1. 20th Century United States Fancy Cancellations by Foster W. Loso and Heyliger de Windt, 1952. Cloth HB, x + 1 plate + 162 p. + tipped in Philip Ward page. 1,300+ fancy cancellations illustrated. With 6-page 1967 pricing guide. Faded cover as usual, otherwise as new copy. $35. 1. Thorp-Bartels Catalogue of the Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States, 1954 Sixth (Century) Edition. Cloth HB, 599 p. well illustrated. Still the best edition, includes many items not in the newer edition. Minor water staining on edge of covers, otherwise VF copy. $59. 1. Field Guide to Revenue Stamped Paper, Part 6, New York State — Priced Catalog of Civil War and Spanish American War Checks, Drafts, Receipts, Stocks, Bonds, and Other Documents Bearing Imprinted Revenue Stamps by B.J. Castenholz, 1991. SB card covers, 128 p., well illustrated. Virtually as new copy. $14. 1. One for a Man, Two for a Horse — A Pictorial History, Grave & Comic, of Patent Medicines by Gene Carson, 1961, 2nd edition. Cloth HB with DJ, 128 p., extensively illustrated. Pictures ads of many concoctions that the Patent Medicine stamps, RS1–RS315, were used on. Nice used copy. $26. 1. One for a Man, Two for a Horse — A Pictorial History, Grave & Comic, of Patent Medicines by Gene Carson, 1961, 1st edition with better binding, sharper illustrations with many in full color (2nd edition b&w only). Cloth HB with DJ, 128 p., extensively illustrated. Pictures ads of many concoctions that the Patent Medicine stamps, RS1–RS315, were used on. DJ bit worn and torn, otherwise a nice copy of this somewhat scarce edition. $39. 1. An Introduction to the Hobby of Collecting the Postage Meter Stamps by R.H. Harsh, 1965. SB card covers, 160 p., extensively illustrated. VF copy. $11. 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 185

1. Philometer Compendium – with price indications; A Standard Catalogue and Guide of 2337 U.S. Philometers Listed as to Design. Type and Purpose Including 1735 Varieties by Jos. Whitebourgh, 1957. Cloth HB, xxv + 211 p., extensively illustrated. Virtually as new copy. 1. Colorado Territorial and Pre-Territorial Postmarks by David L. Jarrett, 1976. Cloth HB, 207 p., very well illustrated, regular edition with reproduction of 1880 35x25 map “Nell’s New Topographical & Township Map of the State of Colorado.” A Collectors Club of Chicago publication. VF copy. 1. Colorado Postal History: The Post Offices by Bauer, Ozment and Willard, 1971. Cloth HB, 248 p. VF copy. 1. Place Names in Colorado — Why 700 Communities Were So Named — 150 of Spanish or Indian Origin by J. Frank Dawson, 1954. SB card covers, 51 p. Non-philatelic, fine copy. 1. The Minnesota Territory in Postmarks, Letters and History by Floyd E. Risvold, 1985. Red cloth HB, 329 p. + folded 17x21 color map in pocket, very well illustrated. Important work from the Collectors Club of Chicago. Virtually as new copy. 1. Military Mail and Civil War Patriotic Covers Used in Missouri by Robert Schultz and Ward Parker, 1995, La Posta Monograph Series Vol. 11. SB card covers, 95 p., well illustrated. As new copy. 1. Nevada Post Offices — An Illustrated History by James Garnett and Stanley W. Paher, 1983. HB, 176 p., well illustrated. Virtually as new copy of this very useful work. 1. Nevada Postal History 1861 to 1972 by Robert P. Harris, 1973. Cloth HB, 64 p. VF copy. 1. Post Offices of New York State 1792–1969, Lee S. DeGraff, ed., 1969. Original photocopy print #59 privately HB in green cloth, quality library binding, 306 single-sided pages. Listing of Post Offices by county, giving opening/closing dates and first Postmaster. Additional alphabetical listing of Post Offices giving county. VF copy. 1. History of Letter Post Communication Between the United States and Europe 1845–1875 by George E. Hargest, 1975 2nd edition. Cloth HB, 345 p., very well illustrated, extensive 8-page index. THE essential work for this area. VF copy. Same, virtually as new. 1. American State Papers Post Office Department 1789–1833, reprint by Theron Wierenga, 1981. Cloth HB, 375 p. Reprint of 1834 compilation of 129 Executive and Legislative documents relating to the Post Office Department. Includes an 8-page index. As new copy. 1. Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America 1832 & 1843, 1980 reprint by Theron Wierenga. Cloth HB, 169. As new copy. 1. Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America 1852, 1980 reprint by Theron Wierenga. Cloth HB, 339 p. As new copy. 1. List of Post Offices and Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States 186

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of America 1857, 1980 reprint by Theron Wierenga. Cloth HB, 263 p. Listing of 25,000+ P.O.s in service in 1857 arranged alphabetically by town name with county, state, and Postmaster’s name. Also PL&R of 1857. As new copy. $24. 1. Postal Laws and Regulations and U.S. Official Postal Guides 1891//1962. Write or e-mail for extensive listing. — 1. The United States Postal Guide and Official Advertiser, 1982 2 vol. reprint by Theron Wierenga. Cloth HB, 757 p. Compete run of 24 issues, July 1850–June 1852. Edition of only 200 sets. Tremendous wealth of information and some very interesting reading to boot. As new copies. $77. 1. The Rural Delivery Service — Instructions for the guidance of postmasters and carriers in the conduct of the Rural Delivery Service, in effect March 4, 1907. Reproduction of Post Office Department book, 78 p., extensive 12-page index, staple bound with card cover, 8½x11. $16. 1. Postal Information, Tenth Edition, July, 1922, Government Printing Office, 1922. Reproduction of 38-page booklet covering domestic and foreign mails. SB card covers, extensive 4-page index. VF copy. $4.50 1. This Is Philately — An Encyclopedia of the Fascinating World of Stamp Collecting by Kenneth A. Wood, 1982, complete 3 vol. set. Small hinge split on vol. 3, otherwise a very nice set. HB, 890 p., extensively illustrated. Don’t let the somewhat cheesy juvenile appearance of the outside fool you. This is a VERY useful work, with 4,000+ entries, that belongs in every collector’s library whether they are a beginning or advanced collector. $31. 1. CSA — Dietz Confederate States Catalog and Handbook of the Postage Stamps and Envelopes of the CSA, 1959. Cloth HB, 282 p., extensively illustrated. Still much preferred by many over the later editions. Very nice copy. $63. 1. More Confederate Imprints — Volume 1, Official Publications, by Richard Harwell, 1957. SB, xxx + 158 p., 945 entries. Good used copy. $12. 1. Opinions III Philatelic Expertizing — An Inside View, Elizabeth C. Pope, ed., 1985. Black cloth HB, 198 p., very well illustrated. Previous owner’s name embossed on inside front endpaper. Outstanding articles on 28 U.S. and 8 foreign subjects. VF copy. $39. 1. Opinions IV Philatelic Expertizing — An Inside View, Elizabeth C. Pope, ed., 1987. Black cloth HB, 244 p., very well illustrated. Outstanding article on 24 U.S. and 9 foreign subjects. Virtually as new copy. $41. 1. Opinions V Philatelic Expertizing —An Inside View, Elizabeth C. Pope, ed., 1988. Black cloth HB, 252 p., very well illustrated. Outstanding articles on 27 U.S. and 4 foreign subjects. Virtually as new copy. $41. 1. The Yucatan Affair — The Work of Raoul Ch. de Thuin, Philatelic Counterfeiter, 1974. Deluxe edition, slipcase ½ leather HB, 523 p. with gilt edges. Hundreds of illustrations taken directly from the counterfeiter’s metal clichés, much more useful than the later reprint. As new copy. $94. 2010 Volume No. 59, 2nd Quarter PLR 187

Same, regular 1974 edition, cloth HB, no slipcase. 1. Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps — Europe 19th Century (Except Old German States) — Description of reprints, postal forgeries, differences of types, watermarks, papers, colors, separations, gum, etc. by Hermann Schloss, 1951. Cloth HB, xxi + 200 p., very well illustrated with enlarged diagrams. VF copy. 1. Postal History of United States Forces in British Solomon Islands Protectorate During World War II by Stanley C. Jersey, 1968. Cloth HB, vi + 90 p., well illustrated with photos, covers, and markings. As new copy. 1. Postal History of American POWs: World War II, Korea, Vietnam by Norman Gruenzner, 1979. HB, v + 138 p. + 1 sheet Corrigenda, well illustrated. As new copy. 1. Holmes Handbook and Catalogue of Canada and British North America, L. Seale Holmes, ed., 1943. Blue cloth HB, 443 p., very well illustrated. Good used copy with gift notation on inside front endpaper. 1. Cancelled with Pride — A History of Chilliwick Area Post Offices 1865– 1993, by Cecil C. Coutts, 1993. SB card cover, 188 p., well illustrated. Author dedication on title page. Virtually as new copy. 1. Katalog Berlin Richtpreisliste der Deutchen Lander und Stadtemarken Nach Dem 8. Mai 1945, 1948. SB card cover, 140 p., well illustrated specialized priced catalog. Nice copy. 1. Guide Lines to the Penny Black; A detailed description of each one of the 2880 stamps and the plates from which it was printed by P.C. Litchfield. Billig’s Philatelic Handbook Vol. 44, reprint of the 1949 work. Red cloth HB, 225 p. Virtually as new copy. 1. Le Tariffe Postali Italiane 1862–2000 Volume 1, Posta aerea 1926–2000, by Giovanni Micheli, 2000. SB card covers, 343 p., not illustrated. In Italian. Virtually as new copy. 1. The Postage Stamps of Japan and Dependencies by A.M. Tracey Woodward, c1960s, Japanese photocopy reprint of the 1928 classic. Maroon cloth HB with card slipcase, 130mm x 182 mm pages. Virtually as new condition. 1. Cumulative Index to JAPANESE PHILATELY — Vols. 1–60 (1946– 2005) by Ron Casey and Kenneth Kamholz, 2006. Cloth HB, 320 p. As new copy. 1. Sieger Liechtenstein Handbuch und Katalog 1939. Cloth HB, 4x8, 176 p., well illustrated. In German. VF copy. 1. The Erich Koenig Collection of 19th and 20th Century Stamps and Covers of Mexico, Sotheby’s 5.30–31.1995 auction catalogue with prices realized. 858 lots, well photographed, many in full color. As new copy. 1. Catalogo Especializado de los Sellos Postales de Mexico by Eduardo Aguirre, 1957. HB, 311 p., some illustrations. Couple of bumped corners, otherwise a very nice copy. 1. CCCP 1918–1969 Catalog, 1970. HB, 653 p, well illustrated. In 188

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2. Abraham Lincoln, A Play by John Drinkwater (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston/NY, 1919); introduction by Arnold Bennett. Author was a distinguished poet, essayist, and playwright as well as an internationally known collector of Civil War postal history. This play was one of his best. Somewhat worn copy but sound, heliographic quotation by Joseph Jefferson placed therein by original owner who also signed his name very neatly. 2. Postage Stamps and Their Collection by Warren Colson; No. 1, the Bowers Collection. Published by the distinguished dealer collector and author, Boston, 1907. Printed by Berkely Press on handmade random paper, rebound in dark green cloth with restored original “label” on face; custom marble end papers on original boards. Spine lettering in white. Profusely illustrated and very clean, nice, and rare. Price firm. 3. Yucatan Affair by APS (1974 unabridged ed.). HB, 523 p., mint, gilt edged Same without gilt edging. 3. Postage Stamps & Postal History of British Guiana by Townsend & Howe (1970). HB, 424 p., like new. 3. The Imperial Eagles of Maximillian’s Mexico by Leo V. Corbett (1993). HB, 413 p., gilt edged, mint, # 205 of 300. 3. A Postal History of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines 1942– 1945 by Eugene A. Garrett (1992). HB, 548 p., like new. 3. The Treskilling Yellow by Lars Fimmerstad (2004). HB, 185 p., mint. 3. Pan American’s Pacific Pioneers by Jon E. Krupnick (1997). HB, 315 p., mint, signed by author. 3. American Postal Markings from Colonial Times to the 1850s by Royden (Dick) H. Lounsberry (1983). HB, 144 p., mint. 3. Guia del Coleccionista de Sellos Correos de España by A. Tort Nicolau (1950). HB, 3 vol. boxed set, like new. 3. The Postage Stamps of Japan and Dependencies by A.M. Tracey Woodward (1976), HB, 548 p. plus plates 1–243, like new. 3. The Orient Flight L.Z. 127-Graf Zeppelin by Fred F. Blau & Cyril Deighton (1980). HB, 135 p., signed by Fred Blau, like new. 3. The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851 to 1861 by Mortimer L. Neinken (1972). HB, like new. 3. The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851 to 1861 by Mortimer L. Neinken (1972). HB, gilt edge, dust cover and shelf box, like new. 3. Tasmania Stamps & Postal History by W.E. Tinsley (1986). HB, 191 p., signed by author, like new. 3. The Postal History of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick 1754–1867 by C.M. Jephcott (1964). HB, 393 p., like new. 3. The Stamps of the Mexican Revolution 1913–1916 by Nicholas Follansbee (1996), HB, 288 p., mint. 190

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