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                                  APRIL 2001
Stamp Lover
 
  • Rare and Valuable "Medical" Stamps - Tom Wilson looks at some of the rarer stamps and philatelic material on medical topics

  • The Affair of the Arrow - Richard Pratt reports on the seizure of a British merchant ship in China at the end of the nineteenth century, and the involvement of British troops. He then describes the postage rates applicable to army and navy personnel serving in the Far East

  • A Postal Historian in Nepal - Keith Tranmer describes his visit to this remote Kingdom many years ago.
  • French Occupied Syria & Lebanon - Bernard Towler considers these issues

  • The Early Stamps of Switzerland by Eric Glasgow.

  • Riding the Skies - Air-mail collector Robert White captures the adventures of the early air mail pilots through the writing of Kingsmill Commander

  • The USA Pictorial Postmark Scene - an up-date by Paul Brenner

  • A New look at the Peace Stamps of 1946 - some thoughts by Michael Scollan about the British and Commonwealth stamps issued to record this important event in world history

  • Auction News - reports on the important forthcoming auctions by Harmers (the Radetzky-Soldi collection of Lombardy Venetia) and Spink (Duplicate and surplus items from the Royal Philatelic Collection including a first day cover of the Penny Black)
 
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