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The great Texas stamp collection : how some stubborn Texas confederate postmasters, a handful of determined Texas stamp collectors, and a few of the world's greatest philatelists created, discovered, and preserved some of the world's most valuable postage stamps /
Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a han...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Charles N. Prothro Texana series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Glossary of Philatelic Terms; Time Line of Important Dates; 1. Difficult Times for Southern Postmasters and Their Customers; 2. The Discovery of the Texas Postmasters' Stamps by Texas Collectors; 3. The World's Greatest Philatelists Acquire Their Own Texas Collections; 4. The Printed Texas Stamps; Beaumont; Victoria; Goliad; Helena; Lavaca; 5. The "Cut and Paste"Texas Stamps; Plum Creek; Independence; Hallettsville; Austin; 6. The "Book and Pill Label"Stamps of Gonzales; 7. The Curious Case of Wharton, Waxahachie, and Other "Wannabe" Texas Postmasters' Stamps.
- San AntonioGalveston; Epilogue; Appendix. A Census of the Known TexasConfederate Postmasters' Provisional Stamps; Notes on Sources; Index; A Photo Gallery of the Texas Postmasters'Provisional Stamps.