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PIGEON MAIL THROUGH HISTORY By SALVADOR BOFARULL
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This book deals with the history of carrying messages and mail by carrier pigeon.
It covers The Ancient World; The Medieval Near East; Europe before 1867; The Franco Prussian war 1870 – 1871; America and Europe before 1914; European Colonies and Dominions; Russia; The First World War; The period between the First and Second World wars; The Second World war and the period after 1945.
There is an extensive bibliography and there is an index to both text and the many illustrations.
The book breaks new ground in its field and reviews in the UK and abroad have brought to the author recognition for his research.
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Alaska,Ancient Egypt
Arab World, Australia
Austria, Belgian Congo, Belgium
Canada, China
Cuba, Dutch East Indies, Egypt
Etruria ,Fiji
Flanders ,France
German East Africa
Greece, Greenland
Hungary, India
Italian Colonies
Italy, Japan
Middle East,
New Zealand, Nigeria
Persia, Poland
Roman Empire
Russia, Sierra Leone
South Africa
South America
Spain, Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
United Kingdom
United States
Venice
Western Europe
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ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 8: 2008
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The Post Office : the other side of the Counter or what the Customer does not see
by Robert Johnson
The article is based on the Stuart Rossiter Trust lecture of November 2006 and describes some of the work and official rules that a postal clerk might have to deal with in the course of a day including letters, parcels, postal and money orders, the savings bank, the telegraph and telephone, insurance, licences, airmails and savings banks. These are profusely illustrated with pictures of forms and of pages from books of postal regulations. The forms are from the Great Britain and many other countries around the world are represented for example a savings form from Southern Rhodesia, a French Service Suspended label concerning nuclear tests in the Pacific, Belgian and French social security forms, a Netherlands authority to collect mail card, an Indian radio licence some of which bear postage stamps
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Australia
USA
France
Belgium
World
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Netherlands East Indies Postal History 1789 to 1877
by by Richard Wheatley
Postal markings were introduced by the old Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) in 1789and this forms an appropriate point to start to unravel the postal history of the area. This comprehensive article traces the routes and postal rates up to 1877 when the Colony joined the General Postal Union.
Both inland mail and mail to overseas destinations are dealt with. From the VOC Company period (1789 -1808), through the French (1808 - 1811) and British (1811 - 1816) Occupations and finally the Dutch Colonial time. Nearly all the pages bear a cover to illustrate a rate or route and there are many tables which provide this information.
There is an exhaustive section dealing with the Dutch East Indies Landmail Labels - the Worlds' first Postage Due Stamp!
The considerable bibliography gives testament to the scope of research and translation that has been needed to present this study in English.
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110 pages B/W illustrations throughout, one colour plate. Card cover. Published 2005
Price £12.50 + postage and packing
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