Chapter I: Introduction: 1

I. PHILATELIC TERMS EXPLAINED 2

II. HOW TO FORM A STAMP COLLECTION 5

III. SPECIALIZING 18

IV. THE STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN 27

V. STAMPS WORTH FORTUNES 37

VI. COMMON STAMPS 42

VII. STAMPS OF SPECIAL INTEREST 46

VIII. FORGED STAMPS 52

IX. PIONEERS OF POSTAGE 59

X. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS 64

XI. INTERESTING PICTURE STAMPS 72

XII. STAMPS AND HISTORY 77

XIII. WAR STAMPS 82

XIV. SOME FAMOUS COLLECTIONS 88

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. PORTRAITS OF KING GEORGE V. _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

2. OVERPRINTED STAMPS 8

3. SOME MEMBERS OF OUR ROYAL FAMILY 17

4. POSTAGE STAMPS HAVING SPECIAL USES 24

5. SPECIMEN STAMPS 27

6. SOME PENNY STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN 30

7. PORTRAITS OF SOME EUROPEAN MONARCHS 41

8. CURIOUS STAMPS 48

9. STAMPS BEARING NATIONAL EMBLEMS 57

10. NOTED STATESMEN OF THE U.S.A. 64

11. SOME VIEW STAMPS 73

12. ZOOLOGICAL STAMPS 80

13. SOME HAPSBURG PORTRAITS 83

14. STAMPS FROM THE GREAT WAR ZONE 85

15. STAMPS COMING FROM COUNTRIES WHICH NO LONGER HAVE SEPARATE ISSUES 88

16. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS 90

[NOTE.--The other volumes in the "Peeps" Series, with few
exceptions, contain coloured illustrations; but, in order to
conform with the regulations of the Inland Revenue authorities, the
pictures in the present volume are necessarily printed in black.]

POSTAGE STAMPS