JAMES CHALMERS INVENTOR OF THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. A short summary of the invention of the adhesive postage stamp

SMITH, W.J. Edited 'with assistance from J.E. Metcalfe'

Published by David Winter & Son Ltd, Dundee, 1970

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Blue cloth with black fr. & spine lettering, no obvious faults. f/piece + 148 + (1, photo) + (unf. yellow facs.)+ (4, blue facs. correspondence, 2 unfolding), 5 plates ex-pagination; pencil gift inscription top front end-paper probably from Smith, otherwise no obvious faults. Clean unclipped jacketunworn bar sl.top sp.rub, but scattered surface rubbing also. An exposure of how Roland Hill gained the credit for inventing the modern postage stamp when its previous locally documented invention by Dundee-based James Chalmers clearly establishes his priority, with Hill's removal of Chalmers's correspondence from H.M. Treasury offices gaining him the historical credit (a short 1891 publication regarding this by his son James Chalmers in incliuded). 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm.

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• Title: JAMES CHALMERS INVENTOR OF THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. A short summary of the invention of the adhesive postage stamp
• Publisher: David Winter & Son Ltd, Dundee
• Publication Date: 1970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG-
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