Philatelic Series CD 3
The COLLEGE STAMPS of OXFORD &
CAMBRIDGE -
Specialised
by H. Cummings, 118 pages, fully text searchable.
A
comprehensive guide to these little written about local issues,
covering the period 1870-1886. Includes 11 colleges, printings,
dies, plates, overprints, shades, history etc. Many illustrations
(a few shown below). Please see below for full list of contents and
further product details.
Contents indexed:
Acts of
Parliament
Anomaly of the postal system
ALL SOULS´ COLLEGE:
Defaced plate
Defective perforation on sheet
Remainder
Used copies
BALLIOL COLLEGE:
Stamps never used
Embossed by hand
Tete beche
Bodleian Library collection
Bibliography
Bunce, Mr., Keble messenger
Bursars of Keble
Cancellation of stamps
Cambridge stamps
Prohibition at Cambridge
Post Box at Colleges
Casual notices
Chronological order of colleges
College messengers
College arms franking power
College stamps in use for fifteen years
Communication from the Post Office
Copper plates defaced
Correspondence of the O. U. S
Corpus Christi College
Defaced plates
Delivery of college letters
Emberlin and Son
Embossed stamps of:
Balliol College
Exeter
Hertford
Keble
Merton
EXETER:
Defaced plate
Lithographed stamps
Used copies
Mint sheets
Copper plate defaced
Obliteration on letters
Post card
Steel die
Five dot cancelling stamp of Keble
Franking power of college die
HERTFORD:
Adoption of stamps
Copper plate defaced
Envelopes, Mauve, Blue
Large Supply of Stamps
Lithographed adhesives
Obliterating stamp
Original Wrapper
Used copies
Infringement of Post Office monopoly
Introduction
KEBLE COLLEGE:
College opened
Concurrent use of three first issues
Daily deliveries of letters
Defaced plates
Earliest dated copies
Embossed stamps,
in orange
in rose pink
in carmine
KEBLE COLLEGE:
Enormous increase in correspondence
Envelopes
New type
First announcement of stamps
Lithographed stamps
Messengers
Obliteration
Parcel Stamp
Pattern cards
Porter´s duties
Post card
Proofs and colour trials
Provisional, so-called
Reputed parcel stamp
Rouletted stamps
Steel die
Tapling collection
Trial impression
Letter boxes for every college
LINCOLN COLLEGE:
Four printings
Number of entire sheets
Obliteration
Proof sheets, in black, in blue
Steel plate
Lithographed stamps of:
All Souls´ College
Exeter
Hertford
Merton
Queen´s Cambridge
Selwyn
St. John´s
St. John´s Oxford
Meeting of Heads of Colleges
MERTON COLLEGE :
College meeting
Die in black
Die for mauve stamps
Embossed stamps
Envelope
Mauve adhesive
Missing dies
Mutilated copies used
Post card
Unknown die
Obliterations of the post office
Obliteration of stamps
Opinion strongly divided
Original plates defaced
Oxford Union Society
Correspondance of
Overprint OUS
Character of surcharge
Large numbers used
Late date of
No records
Privileges
Parcel post stamps, so-called, Keble
Payments for letter service
Plates, original defaced
Postmaster-General´s contention
´Postage´ definition
´Postage´ stamp
Prices of college stamps
Privileges of the universities
Prohibition at Cambridge
Provisional, so called, Keble
Queen´s College Cambridge
Two sheets only known
Recommendation from heads of college
Remainders of stamps
Sir Walter Gray
Spalding, W. P.
Spiers and Son
Stamps used for fifteen years
Suppression of the stamps
Synopsis of Issues
Selwyn COLLKGE, CAMBRIDGE:
Sheets cut up
ST. JOHN´S COLLEGE, OXFORD:
Defaced plates
Steel die
Unused sheets
Used copies on originals
ST. JOHN´S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE:
Sheets
Tapling collection
Defaced plates
Keble stamps
Unauthorised crests
University privileges and rights
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