Stamp Collection

Titanic blueprint
SS Titanic section and plan scale original blueprint, rubber stamped by Harland and Woolf and dated 1 May 1912. It was used in the enquiry that followed the disaster

Titanic whistle and Turkish Bath ticket
1. The brass Thunderer whistle of HJ Pitman, 3rd Officer on the Titanic, with an inscribed label attached. 2. A Turkish Bath ticket

Maharaja of Patiala / Stamp
MAHARAJA BHUPINDER SINGH (1891 - 1938) Ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938. He served on the General Staff in France, Belgium

Czar of Russia / Stamp
TSAR NICHOLAS II (1868-1918) last Tsar of Russia from 1894 to 1918

Arabian-Byzantine coin. Coin. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

The Hotel and Church, Lundy Island, Bristol Channel Date: circa 1938

The British Empire Exhibition - Postcard back
The reverse of a postcard sent from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, held at Wembley Park, London, showing the official exhibition stamp and event postmark!

Major General Lord Cheylesmore / Stamp
Major General HERBERT FRANCIS EATON, 3rd Baron CHEYLESMORE (1848 - 1925) British Army officer and peer

Stamp Machine 1960S
A young woman puts a penny (1d) in the slot of a stamp machine, which will dispense a second class book of stamps. First class stamps are 3d (thruppence) per book

General Sarrail / Stamp
General MAURICE SARRAIL (1856 - 1929) commander of the third army at the battle of the Marne (1914) then the French forces in the Orient (1915-1917)

Freemason seal of the 19th century with different symbols as the Seal of Solomon or Star of David. Metals. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris

Penny Post Jubilee card - Sir Rowland Hill - 1890
A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post. The card features a postman from 1840 and one from 1890

Winston Churchill / Stamp
WINSTON CHURCHILL, British Statesman, here as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War One

Advert for Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron 1888
Advertisement in a trade book for 1888, Redcliffe Crown, galvanized corrugated iron sheets for roofs. 1888

Graca & Cos stall - Hong Kong - important printers and vendors of postcards, stamps and stationary. Date: circa 1905

Stationery, Pawlyn & Sons, Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall
Stationery, Pawlyn & Sons, Fish & Oyster Merchants, 14 Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1918

Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Weave room in No. 11 Mill (a textile mill) of the Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1911

Peter I King of Serbia / Stamp
PETER I, KING OF SERBIA (1903 - 1921) and subsequently proclaimed King of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (1918 - 1921)

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Iran (Persia). These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Norman Nissen, Nissen hut inventor
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Norman Nissen(1873-1930), mining engineer, and inventor of the Nissen hut, and the Nissen stamp for crushing gold ores

100 and 50 drachmas bills, Greece. Coin

Trigonometry Point
A Trigonometry Point at Buvita in the Belgium Congo, topped off with a broom!

Dame Ethel Becher / Stamp
Dame ETHEL HOPE BECHER, Matron in Chief of the Queen Alexandras Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) between 1910 & 191"

King of Montenegro / Stamp
KING NICOLAS (NIKOLA) I of Montenegro (1841 - 1921)

Maharaja of Bharatpur / Stamp
MAHARAJA SIR KISHAN SINGH, KCSI (1899 - 1929) Ruling Maharaja of the princely state Bharatpur (1918 - 1929) and successor of Maharani Girraj Kaur

Princess Mary / Stamp
PRINCESS MARY, Viscountess Lascelles, daughter of George V and Queen Mary

Death Certificate 1943
Death certificate issued in 1943 for John Robert Sanderson.Cause of death was tuberculosis

Philatelist at Work
A philatelist at work on his stamp collection

Boy Licking Stamps
A young boy licks a stamp before putting it on an envelope

George V Pillar Box
An English postman in his uniform, demonstrates the knack of buying a book of stamps from a vending machine attached to a King George V pillar box

Esperanto Stamp
A stamp encouraging postmen to learn Esperanto - the International Helplanguage

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Barbados. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Front page, The London Gazette
Front page of a 17th century issue of The London Gazette, described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper. It contains official government notices and news items, and dates back to the 1660s

Marseilles, France - scene at the racecourse, Parc Borely. Date: circa 1910s

New York Worlds Fair - First Day Cover
New York Worlds Fair World of Tomorrow - First Day Cover - Left-hand stamp depicts the Contemporary Arts Building. Date: 1939

Library attendant

General Sir James Willcocks / Stamp
General SIR JAMES WILLCOCKS (1857 - 1926) Indian born, British Army officer

General Sir Henry C. Sclater / Stamp
General SIR HENRY CRICHTON SCLATER (1855 - 1923) British Army General during World War I

General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle / Stamp
General SIR HENRY DE BEAUVOIR DE LISLE (1864 - 1955) British Army General who served in World War I

General Wingate / Stamp
General SIR FRANCIS REGINALD WINGATE, 1st Baronet (1861 - 1953) British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan

Douglas Haig / Stamp
DOUGLAS, 1ST EARL HAIG British soldier

Lord Fisher / Stamp
JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER 1st Baron Fisher, Admiral and Sea Lord of the Royal Navy

French Philately Manual
Albert Laplanches popular guide to stamp collecting

Paris Stamp Market
LA BOURSE AUX TIMBRES-POSTE The stamp market in the Champs Elysees, Paris

Makers marks on Roman pottery. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

Costumes of the Achaemenid kings of Persia
Costumes of the Achaemenid kings. King Cyrus the Great on his golden throne, King Xerxes I under parasol, Persian king riding a quadriga or four-horse chariot, and on a galley

America - The Stamp Act - Burning the Stamps
American Colonists burn papers bearing the Stamps required under The Stamp Act of March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists

Mabel Lucie Attwell - The Working of the Act - National Insurance 6d Stamp

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