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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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| 167 pages. B/W illustrations. Card cover with colour illustrations back and front. Price £25 plus postage and packing |
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ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 5: 2004
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The Travelling Post Offices of Great Britain
by Harold S Wilson CEng MIMechE
The development of the West Coast Services began with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Warrington in 1837 and eventually extended from Euston to Glasgow and on to Aberdeen. The apparatus used is described together with the late fee and the Experimental Sorting Carriage. Then follows a description of the development of the Travelling Post Office services tracing the amalgamation of various early railway companies into the London & North Western Railway Company in 1846. Details of the various postal markings applied are clearly pictured and described for both the Up and Down TPOs until closure in 2004.
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Great Britain
Italy
East Africa
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The Republic of Venice Posts
by Richard Harlow
A brief account of some of the postal arrangements serving the Republic until 1797
There were some 50 or more courier companies operating into and out of Venice - one of the earliest being the Padua couriers of 1158. Letters of the 1300s are very scare particularly those written before 1350. Letters of the 1400s are a little easier than the 1500s while the 1600s are not too difficult. This account describes briefly the Rome Post (1533), the Milan Post (1584), the Flanders Post (1541), the Post of Vienna (1579), the Post of Lyon (1550), the Swiss Post (1615), the Polish Post (1558), the Ferrara Post (1573) and the Constantinople Post. The "Dazio" or letter tax of 1701 is described as are the manuscript and postal markings of the various types of mail (eg paid, unpaid, registered etc).
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German East Africa
by Michael Farrant
Wartime Emergency Measures 1915 & 1916
On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Colonies were cut off from the fatherland and were all eventually occupied by Allied forces. In the case of German East Africa the colonial authorities were able to continue to function as previously without the assistance of Germany and only gradually did the blockade by the Royal Navy have any real effect. One of the first shortages to be experienced was the diminishing stock of postage stamps as supplies could not be received from Germany. In order to maintain an effective postal system within the Colony, emergency measures were instituted and these were the facility of "cash franking" and the use of prepaid envelopes. Both measures were implemented solely to save the use of postage stamps and are described in detail.
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60 pages B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2004
Price £10 + postage and packing
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