Philatelic Literature Specialists

Weston, H. Edgar and Van Gelder, Peter (editor)

A British “Georgian” Stamp Banned by the Postmaster General

Publisher: The Postal Stationery Society, 2003

New edition, privately bound with cloth-covered card covers, gilt lettering to front cover, illustrated, 20 pages, ex libris Brian Birch with his bookplate inside front cover, in Very Good condition.

Reprint with additional Introduction, illustrations and notes, of Weston’s original 1920 publication. The booklet tells the story of how, in 1916, stamp-dealer H. Edgar Weston (who used the pseudonym “Victor Marsh”) was thwarted in his attempts to make postal use of impressed halfpenny stamps cut-out from ballot papers.

£12.00