Front matter
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The Postage Stamp in War.
By the same Author.
A new work on the postage stamps of the new British Protectorate of
EGYPT
in the Melville Stamp Book series (No. 20) is now on the press and will be published in January, 1915, by Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., 391 Strand, W.C. Price 6d. Post free, 7½d.
... The ... Postage Stamp in War by FRED J. MELVILLE, Editor of "The Postage Stamp." MDCCCCXV - PUBLISHED - BY - FRED. J. - MELVILLE, - 14 - SUDBOURNE - RD., BRIXTON, - LONDON, - ENGLAND.
COPYRIGHT. All rights of translation and reproduction reserved.
ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS.
To many collectors and dealers we are indebted for the loan of stamps, envelopes, etc., for illustration in this work, including Messrs. E. Bentley Wood, H. H. Harland, W. J. Holmes, Nathan Heywood, J. Ireland, R. Wedmore, Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., Hugo Griebert & Co., Alfred Smith & Son, W. T. Wilson, Whitfield King & Co., Charles Nissen & Co., Lewis May & Co., W. S. Lincoln & Son, Bright & Son, R. Roberts, Bridger & Kay, A. C. Roessler, C. Davies, and others.
Captain Lionel Crouch has kindly assisted in revising the proofs.