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- THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP.
- DECISION OF THE
- "ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA":
- James Chalmers was the Inventor of the Adhesive Stamp—"Mr. Pearson Hill has not weakened the Evidence" to that effect. ALSO
- Papers on the Penny Postage Reform,
- BEQUEATHED BY THE LATE
- SIR HENRY COLE.
- James Chalmers first proposed the adoption of the Adhesive Postage Stamp, of which he was the Inventor.
- PATRICK CHALMERS,
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
- LONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1886. Price Sixpence.
- PREFACE.
- THE PENNY POSTAGE SCHEME OF SIR ROWLAND HILL NOT ORIGINAL.
- THE IMPRESSED STAMP.
- FOOTNOTE:
- THE ADHESIVE STAMP.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR HENRY COLE'S PAPERS
- AND THE
- ADHESIVE STAMP OF MR. CHALMERS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE "ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA."
- FOOTNOTES:
- VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE ADHESIVE STAMP.
- FOOTNOTE:
- CONCLUSION.
- APPENDIX.
- OPINIONS FROM THE PRESS.
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