Stamp Collection (#14)

Admiral Sir Henry Jackson / Stamp
SIR HENRY BRADWARDINE JACKSON Admiral of the Fleet and pioneer of wireless telegraphy

Captain Murray Sueter / Stamp
SIR MURRAY FRASER SUETER, CB, MP (1872 - 1960) Royal Naval officer and noted naval aviation pioneer

Flight Sub Lieut Warneford VC recipient 8 / Stamp
REGINALD ALEXANDER JOHN WARNEFORD, VC (1891 - 1915) Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer who received the Victoria Cross

Edward Grey / Stamp
SIR EDWARD GREY British Liberal statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916

General Sir I Hamilton / Stamp
General SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH HAMILTON GCB GCMG DSO TD (1853 - 1947) British Army General and most notably known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle

Mayor of Brussels / Stamp
ADOLPHE EUGENE JEAN HENRI MAX (1869 - 1939) Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death

(Rear) Admiral C. E. Madden / Stamp
SIR CHARLES EDWARD MADDEN (1862 - 1935) Pictured here as Rear Admiral, but eventually reaching the rank of Admiral of the Fleet

Vice Admiral David Beatty / Stamp
LORD DAVID BEATTY British admiral and 1st Earl

Emperor Taisho / Stamp
EMPEROR TAISHO of Japan. 123rd emperor of Japan, reigning from 1912, until his death in 1926

Jemadar, Mir Dast VC recipient 8 / Stamp
MIR DAST VC IOM (1874 - 1950) Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

General Pau / Stamp
General PAUL MARIE CESAR GERALD PAU, (1848 - 1932) French General, commander of the army of Alsace during the first world war

Bulgaria - close to Schipka - Russian Seminary

Major R R Willis VC recipient 2 / Stamp
RICHARD RAYMOND WILLIS VC (1876 - 1966) English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

John Jellico / Stamp
Admiral of the Fleet JOHN RUSHWORTH JELLICOE, 1st Earl Jellicoe, who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I

Corporal Bassett VC recipient 6 / Stamp
CYRIL ROYSTON GUYTON BASSETT (1892 - 1983) New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

General Joffre / Stamp
JOSEPH JACQUES CESAIRE JOFFRE French soldier, commander in chief of the French and Allied armies in World War One

Major O Leary VC recipient 3 / Stamp
MAJOR MICHAEL JOHN O LEARY VC (1890 - 1961) Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

Captain Grenfell VC recipient 4 / Stamp
FRANCIS OCTAVIUS GRENFELL VC (1880 - 1915) of the 9th Lancers. English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be

Lieut Woolley VC recipient 5 / Stamp
GEOFFREY HAROLD WOOLLEY VC OBE MC (1892 - 1968) The first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest

General Smith-Dorrien / Stamp
Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien British Soldier

Lieut Commander Holbrook VC recipient 7 / Stamp
NORMAN DOUGLAS HOLBROOK VC (1888 - 1976) Royal Navy officer who won the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

Alexandra / Stamp
Alexandra Queen to Edward VII

Kitchener / Stamp
Horatio, Lord Kitchener 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum Soldier

Lord Roberts / Stamp
FREDERICK SLEIGH 1st EARL ROBERTS British soldier who served in India, Afghanistan and South Africa

Major General CVF Townshend / Stamp
Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, British Indian Army Officer

King George V / Stamp
KING GEORGE V of Great Britain

Edward VIII / Stamp
EDWARD VIII as Prince of Wales, in the uniform of the Grenadier Guards

Seaman Samson VC recipient 1 / Stamp
GEORGE MCKENZIE SAMSOM VC (1889-1923) Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

John French / Stamp
JOHN DENTON FRENCH Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force

David Lloyd George - postcard
The Stamp that wants a lot of Licking. David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-22). This card comments on the National Health Insurance Act of 1911

Louis VIII Victorious
Louis VIII, known as le Lion, is determined to stamp out heresy in the south of France : he rides triumphantly into Avignon after besieging it for three months

Stamp machine
A Machine which will not cheat and cannot be cheated. The first penny-in-the-slot machine for stamping envelopes

Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki
The Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki, Japan. Founded in 1634, amidst the Japanese governments efforts to stamp out Christianity, it is the most important Shinto shrine

The Stamp Galop features stamps from Western Australia and Bavaria, India, the Papal States and more - evidence of the passion for philately in the Victorian home

Birth Certificate 1901
A 1901 copy of a birth certificate for John Robert Sanderson born in 1880

Baptism Note 1876
A handwritten copy of a baptism certificate issued in 1876 for a baptism in 1840

A Reminder to Write
Heres a pencil... heres a pen... heres a stamp... nows your chance to write

Newspaper Stamp Duty
Delivering the ILN to Somerset House to receive the official stamp : though not direct censorship, this is seen as a tax on knowledge, an infringe- ment of freedom of the press

Stamp Office 1809
Housed in Somerset House : at this time the government derived substantial duty from the stamping of documents of all kinds, including newspapers

Young woman with a basket of decorated Easter eggs
A young woman in a garden with a basket full of large Easter eggs decorated in pink and blue

Young woman with a basket full of Easter eggs
A young woman with a basket full of decorated Easter eggs -- These eggs hold the secret of my heart !

French lady with a basket of large Easter eggs
A pretty French lady with a basket of large decorated Easter eggs says " Theres no need for you to break it -- my egg opens with a Kiss!"

Button Maker 1827
Making metal buttons using a pulley with a weight which is released to stamp the buttons before they are shanked with a solder and polished by women

Paris / Seine / Pont Neuf
A view of the Seine at Pont Neuf

Stamping Metal Toys 1890
Workers stamp metal toys in a factory

Food Ration Book 1941
An example of a food ration book

Washington / Polish Stamp
Polish stamps issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the Polish patriots Kosciusko and Pulaski, who fought with George Washington in the American War of Independence

Margarine Cartoon / 1894
(The cow stamp was used to impress superior butter) " Arf a pound er margarine, please; an Mother says will yer put the cow on it, cos shes got company!"

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