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The Langmead Collection is a collection of British and Irish
telegraph stamp Telegraph stamps are stamps intended solely for the prepayment of telegraph fees. The customer completed a telegraph form before handing it with payment to the clerk who applied a telegraph stamp and cancelled it to show that payment had bee ...
s and stationery from 1851 to 1881 that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It was formed by Peter Langmead and received by the Library under the "in lieu of tax" scheme in 1991.The Langmead Collection.
British Library, 9 February 2012.


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Further reading

* ''The Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain, 1851-1954'', by Alan K. Huggins & Peter Langmead, Great Britain Philatelic Society, United Kingdom, 2003. British Library Philatelic Collections Philately of the United Kingdom Cinderella stamps {{philately-stub