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TREASURY COMPETITION
Mercantile Committee
essay Single sheet entitled "STAMPS" discussing the advantage of printed gummed "stamps" over the idea of pre-printed envelopes and shows printed examples of four such "stamps" with various rates of duty and indication of weight, as suggested by James Chalmers (see "Penny Postage Centenary" page 79, and Stanley Gibbons G.B. Specialised Catalogue, volume one, on page 8 for the illustration), printed in black on thin wove paper (125x215 mm.); folds or creases and a few small stain spots, otherwise fine. Photo
Details
essay Single sheet entitled "STAMPS" discussing the advantage of printed gummed "stamps" over the idea of pre-printed envelopes and shows printed examples of four such "stamps" with various rates of duty and indication of weight, as suggested by James Chalmers (see "Penny Postage Centenary" page 79, and Stanley Gibbons G.B. Specialised Catalogue, volume one, on page 8 for the illustration), printed in black on thin wove paper (125x215 mm.); folds or creases and a few small stain spots, otherwise fine. Photo
Provenance
Griffiths, 1985