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Title How to collect stamps / H.E. Harris & Co.

Publication Info. Pelham, AL : Whitman Publishing, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  769.56 HOW    Check Shelf
Edition Seventh edition.
Description 220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary "Every stamp collector benefits from H.E. Harris & Co.'s over 100 years of experience. How to Collect Stamps is a fascinating guide for the beginner and a valuable source of data for the established philatelist. [Includes]: step-by-step guide to stamp collecting; philatelic history by country; worldwide and U.S. stamp identifier; collector's dictionary; and detailed map with over 400 countries." -- Description provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- History of stamp collecting -- History of postage stamps -- Famous rarities -- History of first day covers -- Cachets -- How to begin -- Accessories -- Catalogs -- Albums -- United States stamp identifier -- Step-by-step identification, a standard procedure -- Collector's dictionary -- Worldwide stamp identifier -- Foreign numerical tables -- Philatelic history by country -- Vanished lands -- Map index -- Map section.
Subject Stamp collecting.
Postage stamps -- History.
Postage stamps. (OCoLC)fst01072793
Stamp collecting. (OCoLC)fst01131421
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
Informational works.
Added Author H.E. Harris & Co., issuing body.
ISBN 0794846432 (paperback)
9780794846435 (paperback)
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