Following on from my queries late last year (A Visit To Salop Stamps
https://goscf.com/t/64957) I've managed to get a full set of the British County Catalogues together.
While I was at it, I bought the forerunner, The Postal History of Great Britain & Ireland (1st edition), as well as England's Postal History and also Postal Markings of Scotland to 1840 (1st edition).
For volumes 1 and 2 I bought the revised edition (both volumes combined) and for volumes 3 to 5 I bought the originals.
A second edition of volume 3 was done in 2005 (I think) but the nuts and bolts of the revised edition are available in the LPHG bulletins 147, 154, 157-159 & 161 at
http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/...notebook.php. What you won't get is the Receiving House information but if you're collecting these handstamps then Hugh Feldman's 2 volume magnum opus is essential.
A Midlands edition of the County Catalogue was published in 2013 by the Midlands Postal History Society (No. 6 on the list here:
http://www.midlandphs.org.uk/pages/...cations.html).
The Lincolnshire Postal History website has done an update for their county. It is available at
http://www.lincspostalhistory.co.uk...30.07.16.pdf.
If you are collecting pre adhesive handstamps/postal markings from England, Wales or Scotland these books provide not only a good listing of the handstamps but some excellent postal history information also.
Posted 04/26/2019 8:03 pm
