What's in your Library?

the newest additions- 2 more on France coming

It's Book day at the brown residence "stampery"





both volumes




I thought  was ordering volume 1 and 2.... working on that


I wonder if this will be sufficient?

but of coarse!!! whenever need be!!!!

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brightonpete, can you post an image of a typical page of the Stoneham book?

Hi Al, if you put 'stoneham' into the search engine it will lead you to page 64 of 'Whatcha been stamping' two thirds of the way down.


Beaten to the post


Be well

Feebletodix

I got this in the mail today from angore...thanks Al.



Although not philatelic in nature, I also received a book the other day that should be of interest to collectors of colonial African stamps. It covers the convoluted history of the European power grab in Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Although I’ve only read about 50-60 pages so far, I can already recommend it to anyone interested in this area.

I've been reading old Soviet philatelic journals.
This one from 1967 has an article about a woman that did her academic degree in philately. She studied economics, and her degree thesis was about the current state of stamp shops (in USSR), challenges, lack of standardization and regulation in the field etc.
That's neat!
I wonder if there are any other academic works on philately.
I think I chose a wrong academic pathway...

A Century of Liberian Philately, arrived in a bix of junk

Congratulations stainlessb with your 2019 COB catalog - neat !

That's really handy indeed. Note - you could do that before you received the hardcopy as well, with only the pdf - just open the pdf twice - and you can have 2 pages visible at the same time. Or even 3 or 4, depending on your screen size / number of screens and if your eyes are ready for it! 

First of all, I want to offer a long belated thanks to Gavin (feebletodix ) who gave me the first book pictured below L'Âge d'Or de la Carte Postale (The Golden Age of the Post Card) during my visit to Oxford on Easter Sunday for the auction.  The book on the right is one that is titled La Poste, and which was apparently sold at the Museum of the French Postal Service.  I acquired this book some months ago at the street market here in Aix.  Today, as I am starting to prepare for the move to England in October, I decided that I needed to find a home here in France for these beautiful books, so I gave them to Pascal, my dealer friend at the Aix market, and he seemed genuinely pleased to get them.  As he stocks and sells lots of post cards, it seemed like he would be able to make especially good use of the book from Gavin.

After some additional discussion, and the purchase of a couple of classic stamps from France for my collection, Pascal decided to make a gift in return, and he gave me his Yvert & Tellier 2017 Catalogue of the Stamps of France, Volume 1, also shown below.  I was very pleased to receive this, as I think that I will be able to make very good use of it going forward.  What was intended to be a gift effectively turned into a trade for me, but I am very happy with the result and just wanted to share with all of you.  And thanks again to Gavin, as without his kindness to me in the first place, which inspired me to pass along his book to Pascal, I suspect that things would have worked out a bit differently.

You were welcome to the book, it needed repatriation and I am glad you were able to get something (cough, err useful ) in exchange.

With the date on the catalogue and its description of "post offices ... in the German Empire", you will probably have a listing of all of the Austrian & Czech post offices, perhaps even the Polish (General Gouvernement) offices as well.  I have a couple of the later editions, one for West (or was it already unified? have to dig through my bookcase) and one for East Germany, but I've never seen a WWII-era copy.  I bet the Kaiser Wilhelm-era books would be fascinating as well, including listings for the Baltics.  Gumbinnen!  (ha ha - my favourite old exonym formerly seen on German stamps)

Ryan