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Kj^J^rrxA f ^ THE STANDARD GUIDE POSTAGE STAMP COLLECTING. fitting ijrc Calais anir gigrws øf fariig. - ВТ M essrs. SE LLA R S and DAVIE. ' LONDON: JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY, 1864. NOTICE. Copies of this “ Guide,” bound in flexible leather, and interleaved for Manuscript additions, may be obtained ol the Publisher, price 2s. 6d., or by post 2s. 8d. ERRATA. i St. Helena, p. 17,1863, fo r “ Twopence, carmine,” read “ One penny, brick-red." Lubeck, p. 42, 1863, fo r “ Arms of Luebeck,” read “ Arms of Lubeck.” Do, Envelope Stamp, do. do. Please see “ DIRECTIONS TO THE READER ” on the last Page o f Introduction. INTRODUCTION. I f a schoolmaster had introduced stamp-collecting amongst boys as a “ royal road” to acquiring a knowledge of current history, geography, and national statistics, he would cer tainly have been considered a very clever person, and would doubtless have received the thanks of a vast body of papas for his ingenuity, and the success which attended his labours. W hy, then, shall not these thanks and good wishes be ex tended at once and at first hand to the collectors themselves, who have originated the pleasant and instructive labour! It. has been remarked by a learned and most experienced master in one of our great public schools, that those boys who have cultivated a taste for stamp-collecting are more industrious, have a more perfect knowledge of their studies, and, above all, obtain a quicker experience of actual life,-and the value of monet (for the rarer stamps will generally have to be purchased), than those lads who have no similar tas tea.* These preliminary remarks are made as a reply to those persons who, having no taste for collecting themselves, can- • Many gentlemen (especially numismatists) collect postage-stamps, but collecting amongst juveniles is here especially spoken of, on account of the ease with which a beginning may be made.
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