Stamp album
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
card, paper, ink, glue
Measurements
226 x 178 x 24 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748711.1
Summary
'THE WORLD POSTAGE STAMP ALBUM' with blue book boards and two world globes front centre in black and white surrounded by a series of world stamp images. On the back in the centre printed in black are two crossed flags depicting the British flag above a globe. The album contains a hundred and forty five pages, plus an additional page added at the rear of 'United South Africa' taken from another album. There are approximately one thousand four hundred and sixty eight stamps within the album spread unevenly throughout the pages (record 748711.2 - 748711.1469).
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.