Page 12 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1878: The British army invades Afghanistan, Zulu's defeat British at lsandhwana, Cyprus

transferred to British control, Serbia becomes independent, Romania achieves nationhood.

At the PSL: Sir Daniel Cooper retires from the Society having sold his collection to Ferrari.

Leading dealer and active member Pemberton dies at the age of thirty-four.

PSL President was His Honour Judge Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Q.C.

Membership was between 15 and 30.

THE SOCIETY'S FIRST CATALOGUE

From the collection of Eduardo Escalada-Goicoechea FRPSL.

Member since 2009. Lives in Spain

POSTAGE STAMPS, STAMPED

ENVELOPES AND POSTCARDS

OF SPAIN AND COLONIES.

What separates this catalogue

from others is that, for the first
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(' .-\. T .-\ J,O(; 1'E time, all the stamps of a single

country are listed. In order to
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achieve this it was necessary for

the Society to gather information

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from numerous collectors,
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including W.A.S. Westaby, Sir
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Daniel Cooper, T.K. Tapling, F .A.

• . Philbrick, F.A. Breitfus and V.G .

Ysasi. This catalogue represents
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the first major work published by

the Society and includes the

differences between postal

forgeries and philatelic forgeries,

as well as different shades,

Sl'AJ_\ ..:L\'D lOLtJJLE::J. watermarks and postcards. Two

years earlier, Dr. Thebussem, a

well know collaborator on the

. catalogue, claimed that there

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were as few as 100 stamp

collectors in Spain.