Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps. In this thoroughly researched history of these rare and highly coveted stamps, The Great Texas Stamp Collection traces their ...
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Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps. In this thoroughly researched history of these rare and highly coveted stamps, The Great Texas Stamp Collection traces their journey from creation through their rediscovery years later by local, and then international, stamp collectors--a journey that culminated in the sale of a few pieces at a recent auction in New York that fetched more than $250,000. Weaving the larger contexts of Texas and U.S. postal history together with individual tales of greed, intrigue, forgery, and discovery, Deaton's book is rich with characters from European royalty to early stamp dealers to common criminals, while also providing detailed examinations of the stamps themselves, including a complete census of the stamps now known as the Texas Confederate Postmasters' Provisionals. Appealing at once to devoted philatelists, Texas and U.S. history buffs, and amateur collectors of all kinds, The Great Texas Stamp Collection offers a unique vantage point from which to view our history as well as the very nature of collecting.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in good dust jacket. Book like new, dj has small tears at front top. viii, 145 p. illus., plans. 29 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plans. Bibliography: p. 135-139.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) VG/VG First Edition of this 1967 HCDJ. SIGNED by author Bill Murtagh, and dated December 1967. Nearly perfect green gilt-stamped cloth boards, square and solid. Interiors have a few minor spots, otherwise as-new in all respects. Unclipped DJ has several tiny edge tears along top edge, now expertly repaired from the inside. 8.5" x 11.25", 145 pages, 66 historical half-tones of town plans and 18th century Moravian buildings, many previously unpublished, index.
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VG-(Slightly aged overall, still nice. ) Teal cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan & illus. paper dust jacket, 145 pp., 66 BW illus. "Although Moravian customs and culture are discussed when they have a direct relation to the style of a building or the arrangement of a town, this work is primarily a study of the distinctive Moravian architectural style and the rigidly controlled development of the villages. Particular emphasis is given to Bethlehem because its buildings are the purest expression of Moravian thought and Germanic background erected in this country. Salem, North Carolina, has a comparable group of buildings, but they were constructed later and are therefore farther removed from European prototypes in style and time." (dj).
