The Campbell-Johnston Collection is a collection of
poster stamp
The poster stamp was an advertising label, a little larger than most postage stamps, which originated in the mid-19th century and quickly became a collecting craze, growing in popularity until World War I and then declining by World War II, until t ...
s that forms part of the
British Library Philatelic Collections
The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national Philately, philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world. It was established in 1891 as part of the British Museum Library, later to b ...
. It consists of 30 large green albums.
[Martin, Jeremy, & John Powell. (2010) ''West Africa in the British Library Philatelic Collections''. Dronfield: ]West Africa Study Circle The West Africa Study Circle (WASC) is the "international specialist society for the study of stamps, postal stationery and postal history of West Africa."Home ...
. p. 117.
References
Further reading
*Schmidt, Walter., ed. "The Poster Stamp Report" in ''The Cinderella Philatelist'', Journal of The
Cinderella Stamp Club
The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded on 5 June 1959 in London, England, and is an association of philatelists, amateur and professional, whose interests lie in local stamps, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, revenue stamps, fiscals, forgeries, bo ...
.
*Steele, H. Thomas. ''Lick 'em, Stick 'em; the Lost Art of Poster Stamps''. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.
External links
Cinderellas - Poster Stamps article.World Poster Stamps by Charles Kiddle.
British Library Philatelic Collections
Cinderella stamps
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