Books

The section includes books on subjects of special and lasting interest to Civil War period collectors. Books may cover more than one topic. When more than one subject is covered in a book, page numbers are given for the type material.

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Collections

• The Tapling Collection of Stamps and Postal Stationary at the British Museum, [1905] (page 28)

    W. H. Peckitt

• The Avery Collection of the Postage Stamps of the World, 1909 (pages 55-58)

    Charles J. Phillips

• The Duveen Collection of Rare Old Postage Stamps, 1922 (pages 11-12)

Confederate History

    J. Thomas Scharf

• History of the Confederate States Navy, 1887

Fakes

    Thomas Dalston

• How to Detect Forged Stamps, 1865 (pages 11-13)

    R. B. Earee

• Album Weeds Vol 1, 1906 (pages 279-300)

General Issues

    Fred Melville

• Confederate States of America: Government Postage Stamps, 1913

Postmasters’ Provisionals

    Thomas M. Pratt

• The Postmaster’s Provisionals of Memphis, Tennessee, 1929

    Geo. L. Toppan

• Notes Upon United States and Confederate States Stamps and their Varieties, 1906 (pages 22-27)

    Francis J. Crown, Jr.

• Surveys of the Confederate Postmasters’ Provisionals, 1982 (courtesy of William T. Crowe)

• Confederate Postal History – An Anthology from The Stamp Specialist, 1976 (courtesy of William T. Crowe)

Special Postal Routes

    Lawrence L. Shenfield

• The Special Postal Routes, 1961 (courtesy of William T. Crowe, and with the permission of the Collectors Club of New York)

Postal Service

    August Dietz

• The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America (1929)