Postage Stamp Collecting, or Philately

12 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

OUR young readers may vainly turn over the pages of any existing dictionary to find the scientific alias of the heading of this article. We…

To schoolboys in general be ascribed the honour of introducing the elegant and instructive fancy forming the subject of our dissertation…

The Californian Pony Expresses, and the earliest emission of Buenos Aires, are exemplars of this primitive way of communication. The…

Nearly two centuries after the plan was broached in Paris appeared the well-known absurd Mulready envelope, an extraordinary evidence of…

The ensuing year witnessed emanations from Austria, Bavaria, Lombardo-Venetia, Prussia, Saxony, Sardinia, and the first of the interminable…

The stamp-issuing localities amount at present to 122, 51 being in Europe; of these no fewer than seven have enlisted within the past…

The memory of the great Confederate struggle will be ever preserved by the postage stamps issued from various cities in the revolting…

The palm of beauty will be assigned nem. con. to the current pair of Nova Scotia types. There are three of each, one representing the full…

There are numerous other exquisite specimens of the engraver's art to be found in a collection of postage stamp. The French republics, the…

Some of the frightful libels on the august countenances of the Emperor Napoleon, the Queen of Spain, and our own Sovereign, fetch also…

Besides such slightly abnormal deviations from the general run of postage stamps, may be enumerated the "too late" label formerly used by…

The highest priced postage stamps were the once rare Pony Expresses (see page 841), one of which cost 4 dollars (16s. 8d.) The 2 dollar one…