What Philately Teaches - A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
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[Illustration: Stamp, "Correo Lima", 2 centavos] [Illustration: Stamp, "Guatemala", 20 centavos] [Illustration: Stamp, "New South Wales", 8 pence] [Illustration: Stamp, "New South Wales", 1 shilling] [Illustration: Stamp, "Newfoundloand", 5 cents] [Illustration: Stamp, "Newfoundloand", 2 cents] [Illustration: Stamp, "Postage W. Australia", 1 shilling] [Illustration: Stamp, "Republic Liberia", 4 cents] [Illustration: Stamp, "Republic Liberia", 1 dollar] [Illustration: Stamp, "New Zealand", 6 pence] [Illustration: Stamp, "Stamp Duty Tasmania", 6 pence] The animal world has been thoroughly exploited by designers of stamps and many curious products have they shown us. This creature with the fine open countenance hails from North Borneo but it is said that similar creatures have been seen by earnest philatelists after an evening of study in the billiard room of the Collectors Club, followed by a light supper of broiled lobster and welsh rarebit. Very familiar to collectors are the camel of Obock and the Soudan, the Llama of Peru, the |
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