Saturday, September 2, 2017

How to Identify Stamps

Another title in the Stanley Gibbons Stamp Collecting Series is "How To Identify Stamps" compiled by James Watson.

It was first published  in 1983, and this is the third edition of 1994.

The contents are as follows:

Introduction
Key Inscriptions
Using the Catalogue
The Normal Alphabet
     A. Country Names - Europe
     B. Country Names - Rest of the World
     C. Subordinate Inscriptions - Whole World
     D. Abbreviations on Stamps - Whole World
Other Alphabets and Scripts
     A. The Cyrillic Group
     B. The Greek Alphabet
     C. Indian Native States
     D. Far East Scripts
     E. Scripts Various
     F. 'No-name' Stamps

Another useful how-to publication!

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